grumpily

1. 1.

   in an ill-natured manner

   “she looked at her husband crossly”

   Synonymscrosslygrouchily

Questions about grumpily

What does grumpily mean?

grumpily means "in an ill-natured manner".

How many syllables are in grumpily?

grumpily has 3 syllables: grum-pi-ly. The stress falls on "grum".

What is another word for grumpily?

Close synonyms include crossly, grouchily. 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 grumpily a common word?

grumpily 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.