mellowingly

1. 1.

   so as to mellow

   “the rays of the sun struck the earth mellowingly”

Questions about mellowingly

What does mellowingly mean?

mellowingly means "so as to mellow".

How many syllables are in mellowingly?

mellowingly has 4 syllables and divides as mel-lo-win-gly 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 mellowingly a common word?

mellowingly 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.