expensively

1. 1.

   in an expensive manner

   “an expensively dressed little man turned a corner and approached her”

   Antonymscheaply

Questions about expensively

What does expensively mean?

expensively means "in an expensive manner".

How many syllables are in expensively?

expensively has 4 syllables: ex-pen-sive-ly. The stress falls on "pen". In IPA it is /ˌɛkˈspɛnsɪvli/.

What is the opposite of expensively?

The recorded antonyms are cheaply.

Is expensively a common word?

expensively 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.

What rhymes with expensively?

1 word rhymes with expensively. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.