publicly

1. 1.

   in a manner accessible to or observable by the public; openly

   “she admitted publicly to being a communist”

   Synonymspublicallyin public

   Antonymsprivately
2. 2.

   by the public or the people generally

   “publicly provided medical care”

   “publicly financed schools”

   Antonymsprivately

Questions about publicly

What does publicly mean?

publicly means "in a manner accessible to or observable by the public; openly". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in publicly?

publicly has 3 syllables: pub-li-cly. The stress falls on "pub". In IPA it is /ˈpʌblɪkli/.

What is another word for publicly?

Close synonyms include publically, in public. 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.

What is the opposite of publicly?

The recorded antonyms are privately, privately.

Is publicly a common word?

publicly is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with publicly?

1 word rhymes with publicly. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.