snappishly

1. 1.

   in an ill-natured and snappish manner

   “`Don't talk to me now,' she said snappishly”

Questions about snappishly

What does snappishly mean?

snappishly means "in an ill-natured and snappish manner".

How many syllables are in snappishly?

snappishly has 3 syllables and divides as snap-pish-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 snappishly a common word?

snappishly 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.