gamely

1. 1.

   in a plucky manner

   “he was seen by a shepherd, gamely negotiating a particularly tricky section of the mountain road to San Doloroso”

Questions about gamely

What does gamely mean?

gamely means "in a plucky manner".

How many syllables are in gamely?

gamely has 2 syllables: game-ly. The stress falls on "game". In IPA it is /ˈɡeɪmli/.

Is gamely a common word?

gamely 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.