somberly

1. 1.

   in a somber manner

   “`That's sure bad news,' said Dowd, somberly”

   Synonymssombrely

Questions about somberly

What does somberly mean?

somberly means "in a somber manner".

How many syllables are in somberly?

somberly has 3 syllables: som-ber-ly. The stress falls on "som". In IPA it is /ˈsɑmbɚli/.

What is another word for somberly?

Close synonyms include sombrely. 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 somberly a common word?

somberly 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.