explosively

1. 1.

   suddenly and rapidly

   “the population in Central America is growing explosively”
2. 2.

   in an explosive manner

   “the political situation in Kashmir and Jammu is explosively unstable”

Questions about explosively

What does explosively mean?

explosively means "suddenly and rapidly". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in explosively?

explosively has 4 syllables: ex-plosi-ve-ly. The stress falls on "plosi". In IPA it is /ˌɛkˈsploʊsɪvli/.

Is explosively a common word?

explosively 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.