hostilely

1. 1.

   with hostility; in a belligerent hostile manner

   “he pushed her against the wall belligerently”

   Synonymsbelligerently

Questions about hostilely

What does hostilely mean?

hostilely means "with hostility; in a belligerent hostile manner".

How many syllables are in hostilely?

hostilely has 4 syllables and divides as ho-sti-le-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.

What is another word for hostilely?

Close synonyms include belligerently. 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 hostilely a common word?

hostilely 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.