cannily

1. 1.

   with foresight

   “more presciently than they superiors, these workers grasped the economic situation”

   Synonymspresciently

Questions about cannily

What does cannily mean?

cannily means "with foresight".

How many syllables are in cannily?

cannily has 3 syllables and divides as can-ni-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 cannily?

Close synonyms include presciently. 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 cannily a common word?

cannily 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.