shockingly

1. 1.

   extremely

   “teachers were shockingly underpaid”
2. 2.

   very badly

   “they behaved shockingly at the funeral”
3. 3.

   so as to shock the feelings

   “One day, she lost her temper, completely, suddenly and, even to herself, shockingly”

   “Suddenly, shockingly, the clergyman's son was a desperado.”

Questions about shockingly

What does shockingly mean?

shockingly means "extremely". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shockingly?

shockingly has 3 syllables: shoc-kin-gly. The stress falls on "shoc". In IPA it is /ˈʃɑkɪŋli/.

Is shockingly a common word?

shockingly 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.