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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial distressingly has 1 sense
- distressingly(r = adv.all) painfully - unpleasantly; "his ignorance was painfully obvious"
THESAURUS
distressingly
abominably, agonizingly, awfully, baldly, balefully, bitterly, blatantly, brashly, confoundedly, cruelly, damnably, deadly, deathly, deplorably, deucedly, distressfully, dolorously, dreadfully, egregiously, excessively, excruciatingly, exorbitantly, extravagantly, flagrantly, frightfully, grievously, harrowingly, heartbreakingly, hellishly, horribly, improperly, inexcusably, infernally, inordinately, intolerably, lamentably, miserably, nakedly, openly, painfully, pathetically, piteously, pitiably, ruefully, sadly, shatteringly, shockingly, something awful, something fierce, sorely, staggeringly, terribly, torturously, unashamedly, unbearably, unconscionably, unduly, unpardonably, woefully
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