teasingly

1. 1.

   in a playfully teasing manner

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

   Synonymstauntingly

Questions about teasingly

What does teasingly mean?

teasingly means "in a playfully teasing manner".

How many syllables are in teasingly?

teasingly has 4 syllables: te-a-sin-gly. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for teasingly?

Close synonyms include tauntingly. 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 teasingly a common word?

teasingly 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.