distressingly

POS

Adverb

HYPHEN

dis=tress=ing=ly

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adverbial distressingly has 1 sense

distressingly(r = adv.all) painfully - unpleasantly; "his ignorance was painfully obvious"

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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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