wryly

1. 1.

   in a wry manner

   “`I see,' he commented wryly”

Questions about wryly

What does wryly mean?

wryly means "in a wry manner".

How many syllables are in wryly?

wryly has 2 syllables: wry-ly. The stress falls on "wry". In IPA it is /ˈɹaɪli/.

Is wryly a common word?

wryly 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.

What rhymes with wryly?

1 word rhymes with wryly. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.