lightly-armed

1. 1.

   armed with light weapons

   Synonymslight-armed

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Questions about lightly-armed

What does lightly-armed mean?

lightly-armed means "armed with light weapons".

How many syllables are in lightly-armed?

lightly-armed has 2 syllables: light-ly-armed. The stress falls on "light".

What is another word for lightly-armed?

Close synonyms include light-armed. 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 lightly-armed a common word?

lightly-armed 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.