icily

1. 1.

   in a cold and icy manner

   “`Mr. Powell finds it easier to take it out of mothers, children and sick people than to take on this vast industry,' Mr Brown commented icily”

Questions about icily

What does icily mean?

icily means "in a cold and icy manner".

How many syllables are in icily?

icily has 3 syllables: i-ci-ly. The stress falls on "i". In IPA it is /ˈaɪsɪli/.

Is icily a common word?

icily 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.