unwarrantably

1. 1.

   in an unwarrantable manner or to an unwarranted degree

   “in this painting, the relationship of the upper part of the body to the lower is uneasy and the right thigh seems unwarrantably stressed”

Questions about unwarrantably

What does unwarrantably mean?

unwarrantably means "in an unwarrantable manner or to an unwarranted degree".

How many syllables are in unwarrantably?

unwarrantably has 5 syllables and divides as un-war-ran-ta-bly 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 unwarrantably a common word?

unwarrantably 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.