sedulously

1. 1.

   in a sedulous manner

   “this illusion has been sedulously fostered”

Questions about sedulously

What does sedulously mean?

sedulously means "in a sedulous manner".

How many syllables are in sedulously?

sedulously has 4 syllables and divides as se-du-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.

Is sedulously a common word?

sedulously 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.