contrastingly

1. 1.

   in a contrasting manner

   “contrastingly, both the rooms leading off it gave an immediate impression of being disgraced”

Questions about contrastingly

What does contrastingly mean?

contrastingly means "in a contrasting manner".

How many syllables are in contrastingly?

contrastingly has 4 syllables: con-tra-stin-gly. The stress falls on "tra".

Is contrastingly a common word?

contrastingly 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.