lackadaisically

1. 1.

   in an idle and lackadaisical manner

   “he was hanging around the house lackadaisically”

Questions about lackadaisically

What does lackadaisically mean?

lackadaisically means "in an idle and lackadaisical manner".

How many syllables are in lackadaisically?

lackadaisically has 6 syllables and divides as lac-ka-dai-si-cal-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.

Is lackadaisically a common word?

lackadaisically 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.