meanly

Questions about meanly

What does meanly mean?

meanly means "in a nasty ill-tempered manner". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in meanly?

meanly has 3 syllables: me-an-ly. The stress falls on "me".

What is another word for meanly?

Close synonyms include nastily, scurvily, basely, humbly. 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 meanly a common word?

meanly 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.