hollowly

1. 1.

   in a hollow manner

   “her footsteps echoed hollowly in the empty hall”

   “his insincere words hung hollowly between them”

Questions about hollowly

What does hollowly mean?

hollowly means "in a hollow manner".

How many syllables are in hollowly?

hollowly has 3 syllables and divides as hol-low-ly 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 hollowly a common word?

hollowly 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.