scathingly

1. 1.

   in a scathing and unsparing manner

   “she criticized him scathingly”

   Synonymsunsparingly

Questions about scathingly

What does scathingly mean?

scathingly means "in a scathing and unsparing manner".

How many syllables are in scathingly?

scathingly has 3 syllables and divides as sca-thin-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.

What is another word for scathingly?

Close synonyms include unsparingly. 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 scathingly a common word?

scathingly 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.