musingly

1. 1.

   in a reflective manner

   “`It's funny about that bar,' he said musingly”

Questions about musingly

What does musingly mean?

musingly means "in a reflective manner".

How many syllables are in musingly?

musingly has 3 syllables: mu-sin-gly. The stress falls on "mu".

Is musingly a common word?

musingly 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.