imperiously

1. 1.

   in an imperious manner

   “imperiously he cut her short”

Questions about imperiously

What does imperiously mean?

imperiously means "in an imperious manner".

How many syllables are in imperiously?

imperiously has 5 syllables: im-pe-ri-ou-sly. The stress falls on "ri".

Is imperiously a common word?

imperiously 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.