enterprisingly

1. 1.

   in an enterprising manner

   “`Let's go up that mountain,' she said enterprisingly”

Questions about enterprisingly

What does enterprisingly mean?

enterprisingly means "in an enterprising manner".

How many syllables are in enterprisingly?

enterprisingly has 5 syllables and divides as en-ter-pri-sin-gly 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 enterprisingly a common word?

enterprisingly 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.