tunelessly

1. 1.

   in a tuneless fashion

   “he whistled tunelessly”

Questions about tunelessly

What does tunelessly mean?

tunelessly means "in a tuneless fashion".

How many syllables are in tunelessly?

tunelessly has 4 syllables and divides as tu-ne-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 tunelessly a common word?

tunelessly 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.