cagily

1. 1.

   in a cagey manner

   “`I don't know yet,' he answered cagily”

   Synonymscircumspectly

Questions about cagily

What does cagily mean?

cagily means "in a cagey manner".

How many syllables are in cagily?

cagily has 3 syllables and divides as ca-gi-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for cagily?

Close synonyms include circumspectly. 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 cagily a common word?

cagily 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.