bodily

1. 1.

   in bodily form

   “he was translated bodily to heaven”

Questions about bodily

What does bodily mean?

bodily means "of or relating to or belonging to the body". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bodily?

bodily has 3 syllables: bo-di-ly. The stress falls on "bo". In IPA it is /ˈbɑdəli/.

What is another word for bodily?

Close synonyms include corporal, corporeal, somatic. 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 bodily a common word?

bodily is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.