quaveringly

1. 1.

   in an unsteady quavering manner

   “the man began quaveringly to question the soldier”

Questions about quaveringly

What does quaveringly mean?

quaveringly means "in an unsteady quavering manner".

How many syllables are in quaveringly?

quaveringly has 4 syllables and divides as qua-ve-rin-gly 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 quaveringly a common word?

quaveringly 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.