barefacedly

1. 1.

   without shame

   “he unashamedly abandoned the project when he realized he would not gain from it”

   Synonymsunashamedlyshamelessly

Questions about barefacedly

What does barefacedly mean?

barefacedly means "without shame".

How many syllables are in barefacedly?

barefacedly has 5 syllables: ba-re-fa-ced-ly. The stress falls on "fa".

What is another word for barefacedly?

Close synonyms include unashamedly, shamelessly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is barefacedly a common word?

barefacedly 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.