uxoriously

1. 1.

   in a loving and uxorious manner

   “he kept deferring uxoriously to Mary”

Questions about uxoriously

What does uxoriously mean?

uxoriously means "in a loving and uxorious manner".

How many syllables are in uxoriously?

uxoriously has 5 syllables and divides as ux-o-ri-ou-sly 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 uxoriously a common word?

uxoriously 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.