distressingly

1. 1.

   unpleasantly

   “his ignorance was painfully obvious”

   Synonymspainfully

Questions about distressingly

What does distressingly mean?

distressingly means "unpleasantly".

How many syllables are in distressingly?

distressingly has 4 syllables: di-stres-sin-gly. The stress falls on "stres". In IPA it is /dɪˈstɹɛsɪŋli/.

What is another word for distressingly?

Close synonyms include painfully. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is distressingly a common word?

distressingly 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.