smolderingly

1. 1.

   with barely repressed anger

   “`I can't wait,' she answered smolderingly”

   Synonymssmoulderingly

Questions about smolderingly

What does smolderingly mean?

smolderingly means "with barely repressed anger".

How many syllables are in smolderingly?

smolderingly has 4 syllables: smol-de-rin-gly. The stress falls on "de".

What is another word for smolderingly?

Close synonyms include smoulderingly. 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 smolderingly a common word?

smolderingly 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.