unsoldierly

1. 1.

   not conforming to military standards

   “unsoldierly posture”

   Similarunmilitary

Questions about unsoldierly

What does unsoldierly mean?

unsoldierly means "not conforming to military standards".

How many syllables are in unsoldierly?

unsoldierly has 4 syllables and divides as un-sol-dier-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.

Is unsoldierly a common word?

unsoldierly 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.