querulously

1. 1.

   in a peevish manner

   Synonymspeevishlyfractiously

Questions about querulously

What does querulously mean?

querulously means "in a peevish manner".

How many syllables are in querulously?

querulously has 4 syllables and divides as que-ru-lou-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.

What is another word for querulously?

Close synonyms include peevishly, fractiously. 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.

Is querulously a common word?

querulously 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.