punctiliously

1. 1.

   in a punctilious manner

   “he launched into a long history of the birth of communism, giving credit punctiliously to the work of Marx and Engels”

Questions about punctiliously

What does punctiliously mean?

punctiliously means "in a punctilious manner".

How many syllables are in punctiliously?

punctiliously has 5 syllables and divides as punc-ti-li-ou-sly 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 punctiliously a common word?

punctiliously 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.