dandily

1. 1.

   in a dandy manner

   “she had shown her talents dandily”

Questions about dandily

What does dandily mean?

dandily means "in a dandy manner".

How many syllables are in dandily?

dandily has 3 syllables and divides as dan-di-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.

Is dandily a common word?

dandily 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.