silkily

1. 1.

   in a silky manner

   “the young wheat shone silkily”

   “`Darling,' she said silkily”

Questions about silkily

What does silkily mean?

silkily means "in a silky manner".

How many syllables are in silkily?

silkily has 3 syllables and divides as sil-ki-ly 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 silkily a common word?

silkily 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.