thriftlessly

1. 1.

   in a thriftless manner

   “he lives thriftlessly from day to day”

Questions about thriftlessly

What does thriftlessly mean?

thriftlessly means "in a thriftless manner".

How many syllables are in thriftlessly?

thriftlessly has 3 syllables and divides as thrift-les-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 thriftlessly a common word?

thriftlessly 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.