appallingly

1. 1.

   to an appalling extent

   “the prisoners were appallingly thin”

Questions about appallingly

What does appallingly mean?

appallingly means "to an appalling extent".

How many syllables are in appallingly?

appallingly has 4 syllables: ap-pal-lin-gly. The stress falls on "pal". In IPA it is /əˈpɔlɪŋli/.

Is appallingly a common word?

appallingly is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.