profanely

1. 1.

   with curses

   “muttering profanely”
2. 2.

   in an irreverent or profane manner

   “he kept wondering profanely why everything bad happened to him”

Questions about profanely

What does profanely mean?

profanely means "with curses". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in profanely?

profanely has 4 syllables: pro-fa-ne-ly. The stress falls on "fa".

Is profanely a common word?

profanely 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.