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 and divides as flip-pant-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.

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.