meretriciously

1. 1.

   in a meretricious manner

   “the boat is meretriciously decorated”

   Synonymsflashily

Questions about meretriciously

What does meretriciously mean?

meretriciously means "in a meretricious manner".

How many syllables are in meretriciously?

meretriciously has 6 syllables and divides as me-re-tri-ci-ou-sly 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 meretriciously?

Close synonyms include flashily. 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 meretriciously a common word?

meretriciously 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.