worriedly

1. 1.

   in a worried manner

   “`I wonder what to do,' she said worriedly”

   “he paused worriedly before calling the bank”

Questions about worriedly

What does worriedly mean?

worriedly means "in a worried manner".

How many syllables are in worriedly?

worriedly has 3 syllables and divides as wor-ried-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 worriedly a common word?

worriedly 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.