sweepingly

1. 1.

   in a sweeping manner

   “he sweepingly condemned the entire population of the country for the war crimes”

Questions about sweepingly

What does sweepingly mean?

sweepingly means "in a sweeping manner".

How many syllables are in sweepingly?

sweepingly has 3 syllables and divides as swee-pin-gly 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 sweepingly a common word?

sweepingly 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.