dearly-won

1. 1.

   entailing great loss or sacrifice

   “a dearly-won victory”

   Synonymscostly

   Similarexpensive

Questions about dearly-won

What does dearly-won mean?

dearly-won means "entailing great loss or sacrifice".

How many syllables are in dearly-won?

dearly-won has 4 syllables and divides as de-ar-ly--won 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 dearly-won?

Close synonyms include costly. 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.