tauntingly

1. 1.

   in a playfully teasing manner

   “`You hate things to be out of order, don't you?' she said teasingly”

   Synonymsteasingly

Questions about tauntingly

What does tauntingly mean?

tauntingly means "in a playfully teasing manner".

How many syllables are in tauntingly?

tauntingly has 3 syllables: taun-tin-gly. The stress falls on "taun".

What is another word for tauntingly?

Close synonyms include teasingly. 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 tauntingly a common word?

tauntingly 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.