gloatingly

1. 1.

   in a gloating manner

   “he spoke gloatingly about people he had cheated out of their money”

Questions about gloatingly

What does gloatingly mean?

gloatingly means "in a gloating manner".

How many syllables are in gloatingly?

gloatingly has 4 syllables: glo-a-tin-gly. The stress falls on "a".

Is gloatingly a common word?

gloatingly 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.