infectiously

1. 1.

   in a contagious manner

   “she was contagiously bubbly”

   Synonymscontagiously

Questions about infectiously

What does infectiously mean?

infectiously means "in a contagious manner".

How many syllables are in infectiously?

infectiously has 5 syllables and divides as in-fec-ti-ou-sly 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 infectiously?

Close synonyms include contagiously. 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 infectiously a common word?

infectiously 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.