light-handedly

1. 1.

   in a light-handed manner

Questions about light-handedly

What does light-handedly mean?

light-handedly means "in a light-handed manner".

How many syllables are in light-handedly?

light-handedly has 4 syllables and divides as ligh-t-han-ded-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 light-handedly a common word?

light-handedly 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.