heartlessly

1. 1.

   in a heartless manner

   “she behaves rather heartlessly toward her admirers”

Questions about heartlessly

What does heartlessly mean?

heartlessly means "in a heartless manner".

How many syllables are in heartlessly?

heartlessly has 4 syllables and divides as he-art-les-sly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is heartlessly a common word?

heartlessly 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.