defenselessly

1. 1.

   without defense

   “the child was standing in the middle of the crossfire, defenselessly”

   Synonymsdefenselessdefencelessdefencelessly

Questions about defenselessly

What does defenselessly mean?

defenselessly means "without defense".

How many syllables are in defenselessly?

defenselessly has 5 syllables and divides as de-fen-se-les-sly 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 defenselessly?

Close synonyms include defenseless, defenceless, defencelessly. 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.