Antonyms for distressingly
| Grammar : Adv |
| Spell : dih-stres |
| Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈstrɛs |
Definition of distressingly
Origin :- late 13c., "circumstance that causes anxiety or hardship," from Old French destresse, from Vulgar Latin *districtia "restraint, affliction, narrowness, distress," from Latin districtus, past participle of distringere "draw apart, hinder," also, in Medieval Latin "compel, coerce," from dis- "apart" (see dis-) + stringere "draw tight, press together" (see strain (v.)). Meaning "anguish, suffering; grief" is from c.1300.
- As in seriously : adv dangerously, critically
- As in deeply : adv completely, intensely
- As in hard : adv with difficulty
- In our experience hard cider is distressingly like drinking vinegar.
- Extract from : « Pipefuls » by Christopher Morley
- Consuelo was determined, indignant, distressingly reproachful!
- Extract from : « Short Stories of Various Types » by Various
- The future is not such a distressingly unknown quantity as it was then.
- Extract from : « Mary Ware's Promised Land » by Annie Fellows Johnston
- So far the results have been distressingly uniform and hopelessly negative.
- Extract from : « Preventable Diseases » by Woods Hutchinson
- Excellent people, no doubt, but distressingly shortsighted in some matters.
- Extract from : « Ulysses » by James Joyce
- He did not laugh; the absurdity was so distressingly unnatural.
- Extract from : « Day and Night Stories » by Algernon Blackwood
- And the days that now remained for that were distressingly few.
- Extract from : « Bert Wilson's Fadeaway Ball » by J. W. Duffield
- Julia was distressingly pretty; there was no disguising the fact.
- Extract from : « The Open Question » by Elizabeth Robins
- What should he do, in these distressingly painful circumstances?
- Extract from : « Cupid in Africa » by P. C. Wren
- Nervous diseases are distressingly prevalent; still we hurry!
- Extract from : « The Ways of Men » by Eliot Gregory
Synonyms for distressingly
- acutely
- affectingly
- agonizingly
- arduously
- awkwardly
- badly
- burdensomely
- carefully
- cumbersomely
- cumbrously
- decidedly
- deplorably
- distressingly
- exhaustingly
- feelingly
- genuinely
- gravely
- grievously
- gruelingly
- hardly
- harmfully
- harshly
- inconveniently
- intensely
- laboriously
- menacingly
- mournfully
- movingly
- painfully
- passionately
- perilously
- ponderously
- precariously
- profoundly
- quite
- regrettably
- roughly
- sadly
- seriously
- severely
- sorely
- strenuously
- surely
- thoroughly
- threateningly
- tiredly
- to the quick
- toilsomely
- unwieldily
- very
- vigorously
- with great effort
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