belligerently

1. 1.

   with hostility; in a belligerent hostile manner

   “he pushed her against the wall belligerently”

   Synonymshostilely

Questions about belligerently

What does belligerently mean?

belligerently means "with hostility; in a belligerent hostile manner".

How many syllables are in belligerently?

belligerently has 5 syllables: bel-li-ge-rent-ly. The stress falls on "ge".

What is another word for belligerently?

Close synonyms include hostilely. 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 belligerently a common word?

belligerently 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.