lightly-armed

1. 1.

   armed with light weapons

   Synonymslight-armed

   Similarlight

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 and divides as light-ly-armed 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 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.