untidily

1. 1.

   in a messy, untidy manner

   “Rossi spat very deliberately, and very messily, upon Durieux's party card”

   Synonymsmessily

Questions about untidily

What does untidily mean?

untidily means "in a messy, untidy manner".

How many syllables are in untidily?

untidily has 4 syllables: un-ti-di-ly. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for untidily?

Close synonyms include messily. 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 untidily a common word?

untidily 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.