heinously

1. 1.

   in a terribly evil manner

   “the child was heinously murdered”

   Synonymsmonstrously

Questions about heinously

What does heinously mean?

heinously means "in a terribly evil manner".

How many syllables are in heinously?

heinously has 3 syllables: hei-nou-sly. The stress falls on "hei".

What is another word for heinously?

Close synonyms include monstrously. 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 heinously a common word?

heinously 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.