baldly

1. 1.

   in a bald manner

   “this book is, to put it baldly, an uneven work.”

Questions about baldly

What does baldly mean?

baldly means "in a bald manner".

How many syllables are in baldly?

baldly has 2 syllables: bald-ly. The stress falls on "bald". In IPA it is /ˈbɔldli/.

Is baldly a common word?

baldly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.