unhelpfully

1. 1.

   in an unhelpful manner

   “he stood by unhelpfully while the house burned down”

   Antonymshelpfully

Questions about unhelpfully

What does unhelpfully mean?

unhelpfully means "in an unhelpful manner".

How many syllables are in unhelpfully?

unhelpfully has 4 syllables and divides as un-help-ful-ly 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 the opposite of unhelpfully?

The recorded antonyms are helpfully.

Is unhelpfully a common word?

unhelpfully 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.