scrappily

1. 1.

   in a bellicose contentious manner

   “`Don't trespass onto my property,' the neighbor shouted combatively”

   Synonymscombatively

Questions about scrappily

What does scrappily mean?

scrappily means "in a bellicose contentious manner".

How many syllables are in scrappily?

scrappily has 3 syllables: scrap-pi-ly. The stress falls on "scrap".

What is another word for scrappily?

Close synonyms include combatively. 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 scrappily a common word?

scrappily 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.