toughly

1. 1.

   in a ruggedly tough manner

   “toughly vigorous story-telling”

Questions about toughly

What does toughly mean?

toughly means "in a ruggedly tough manner".

How many syllables are in toughly?

toughly has 2 syllables and divides as tough-ly 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 toughly a common word?

toughly 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.