stertorously

1. 1.

   in a noisy and stertorous manner

   “he was breathing stertorously”

Questions about stertorously

What does stertorously mean?

stertorously means "in a noisy and stertorous manner".

How many syllables are in stertorously?

stertorously has 4 syllables and divides as ster-to-rou-sly 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 stertorously a common word?

stertorously 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.