furtively

1. 1.

   in a furtive manner

   “the soldiers were furtively crawling through the night”

   Synonymson the sly

Questions about furtively

What does furtively mean?

furtively means "in a furtive manner".

How many syllables are in furtively?

furtively has 3 syllables: fur-tive-ly. The stress falls on "fur". In IPA it is /ˈfɝtɪvli/.

What is another word for furtively?

Close synonyms include on the sly. 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 furtively a common word?

furtively 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.