ruthlessly

1. 1.

   in a ruthless manner

   “the government has been urged to take immediate action to deal ruthlessly with the strikers”

Questions about ruthlessly

What does ruthlessly mean?

ruthlessly means "in a ruthless manner".

How many syllables are in ruthlessly?

ruthlessly has 3 syllables: ruth-les-sly. The stress falls on "ruth". In IPA it is /ˈɹuθləsli/.

Is ruthlessly a common word?

ruthlessly is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.