disappointingly

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   in a disappointing manner

   “the discoverer of argon, Sir William Ramsay, looked disappointingly ordinary”

Questions about disappointingly

What does disappointingly mean?

disappointingly means "in a disappointing manner".

How many syllables are in disappointingly?

disappointingly has 5 syllables: di-sap-poin-tin-gly. The stress falls on "poin". In IPA it is /dɪsəˈpɔɪntɪŋli/.

Is disappointingly a common word?

disappointingly 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.