understandingly

1. 1.

   with understanding

   “she nodded understandingly”

Questions about understandingly

What does understandingly mean?

understandingly means "with understanding".

How many syllables are in understandingly?

understandingly has 5 syllables and divides as un-der-stan-din-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.

Is understandingly a common word?

understandingly 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.