coquettishly

1. 1.

   in a flirtatious manner

   “she smiled coquettishly”

   Synonymsflirtatiously

Questions about coquettishly

What does coquettishly mean?

coquettishly means "in a flirtatious manner".

How many syllables are in coquettishly?

coquettishly has 4 syllables and divides as coq-uet-tish-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 coquettishly?

Close synonyms include flirtatiously. 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 coquettishly a common word?

coquettishly 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.