trippingly

1. 1.

   moving with quick light steps

   “she walked lightsomely down the long staircase”

   Synonymslightsomely

Questions about trippingly

What does trippingly mean?

trippingly means "moving with quick light steps".

How many syllables are in trippingly?

trippingly has 3 syllables and divides as trip-pin-gly 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.

What is another word for trippingly?

Close synonyms include lightsomely. 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 trippingly a common word?

trippingly 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.