cloyingly

1. 1.

   in an overly sweet manner

Questions about cloyingly

What does cloyingly mean?

cloyingly means "in an overly sweet manner".

How many syllables are in cloyingly?

cloyingly has 2 syllables and divides as cloyin-gly 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.

Is cloyingly a common word?

cloyingly 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.