tread-softly

Questions about tread-softly

What does tread-softly mean?

tread-softly means "a stinging herb of tropical America".

How many syllables are in tread-softly?

tread-softly has 4 syllables: tre-ad--soft-ly. The stress falls on "ad-".

What is another word for tread-softly?

Close synonyms include spurge nettle, devil nettle, pica-pica, Cnidoscolus urens, Jatropha urens. 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 tread-softly a common word?

tread-softly 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.