distressfully

1. 1.

   with distress

   “`Doctor Rother says it's his only chance,' she added distressfully”

Questions about distressfully

What does distressfully mean?

distressfully means "with distress".

How many syllables are in distressfully?

distressfully has 4 syllables: di-stress-ful-ly. The stress falls on "stress".

Is distressfully a common word?

distressfully 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.