fixedly

1. 1.

   in a fixed manner

   “he stared at me fixedly”

Questions about fixedly

What does fixedly mean?

fixedly means "in a fixed manner".

How many syllables are in fixedly?

fixedly has 3 syllables and divides as fix-ed-ly 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 fixedly a common word?

fixedly 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.