flippantly

1. 1.

   in a flippant manner

   “he answered the reporters' questions flippantly”

   “this cannot be airily explained to your children”

   Synonymsairily

Questions about flippantly

What does flippantly mean?

flippantly means "in a flippant manner".

How many syllables are in flippantly?

flippantly has 3 syllables: flip-pant-ly. The stress falls on "flip".

What is another word for flippantly?

Close synonyms include airily. 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 flippantly a common word?

flippantly 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.