twee

Questions about twee

What does twee mean?

twee means "affectedly dainty or refined".

How many syllables are in twee?

twee has 1 syllable under the regular spelling rules, and is not divided further. 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 twee?

Close synonyms include mincing, niminy-piminy, prim. 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 twee a common word?

twee 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.