soberly

1. 1.

   in a grave and sober manner

   “he walked soberly toward the altar”

   Synonymsgravelystaidly

Questions about soberly

What does soberly mean?

soberly means "in a grave and sober manner".

How many syllables are in soberly?

soberly has 3 syllables: so-ber-ly. The stress falls on "so". In IPA it is /ˈsoʊbɚli/.

What is another word for soberly?

Close synonyms include gravely, staidly. 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 soberly a common word?

soberly 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.