petulantly

1. 1.

   in a petulant manner

   “he said testily: `Go away!'”

   Synonymstestilyirritablypettishly

Questions about petulantly

What does petulantly mean?

petulantly means "in a petulant manner".

How many syllables are in petulantly?

petulantly has 4 syllables and divides as pe-tu-lant-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.

What is another word for petulantly?

Close synonyms include testily, irritably, pettishly. 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.