fishily

1. 1.

   in a questionably unusual manner

   “this money had been queerly come by”

   Synonymsqueerly

Questions about fishily

What does fishily mean?

fishily means "in a questionably unusual manner".

How many syllables are in fishily?

fishily has 3 syllables: fi-shi-ly. The stress falls on "fi".

What is another word for fishily?

Close synonyms include queerly. 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.

Is fishily a common word?

fishily 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.