grudgingly

1. 1.

   in a grudging manner

   “he grudgingly agreed to have a drink in a hotel close by”

   Antonymsungrudgingly

Questions about grudgingly

What does grudgingly mean?

grudgingly means "in a grudging manner".

How many syllables are in grudgingly?

grudgingly has 3 syllables: grud-gin-gly. The stress falls on "grud". In IPA it is /ˈɡɹʌdʒɪŋli/.

What is the opposite of grudgingly?

The recorded antonyms are ungrudgingly.

Is grudgingly a common word?

grudgingly 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.