moodily

1. 1.

   in a moody manner

   “in the bar, a youngish, sharp-eyed man was staring moodily into a gin and tonic”

Questions about moodily

What does moodily mean?

moodily means "in a moody manner".

How many syllables are in moodily?

moodily has 3 syllables and divides as moo-di-ly 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 moodily a common word?

moodily 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.