discouragingly

1. 1.

   in a discouraging manner

   “the failure rate on the bar exam is discouragingly high”

   Antonymsencouragingly

Questions about discouragingly

What does discouragingly mean?

discouragingly means "in a discouraging manner".

How many syllables are in discouragingly?

discouragingly has 5 syllables: di-scou-ra-gin-gly. The stress falls on "ra".

What is the opposite of discouragingly?

The recorded antonyms are encouragingly.

Is discouragingly a common word?

discouragingly 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.