imposingly

1. 1.

   in an impressive manner

   “the students progressed impressively fast”

   Synonymsimpressively

Questions about imposingly

What does imposingly mean?

imposingly means "in an impressive manner".

How many syllables are in imposingly?

imposingly has 4 syllables and divides as im-po-sin-gly 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 imposingly?

Close synonyms include impressively. 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 imposingly a common word?

imposingly 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.