distressingly

as inseriously
as indeeply
as inhard

Synonyms for distressingly

adv dangerously, critically

Antonyms for distressingly

little
casually
funnily
lightly
minor
trivially

Word Origin & History

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.

Example Sentences fordistressingly

In our experience hard cider is distressingly like drinking vinegar.

Consuelo was determined, indignant, distressingly reproachful!

The future is not such a distressingly unknown quantity as it was then.

So far the results have been distressingly uniform and hopelessly negative.

Excellent people, no doubt, but distressingly shortsighted in some matters.

He did not laugh; the absurdity was so distressingly unnatural.

And the days that now remained for that were distressingly few.

Julia was distressingly pretty; there was no disguising the fact.

What should he do, in these distressingly painful circumstances?

Nervous diseases are distressingly prevalent; still we hurry!

distressingly

Synonyms for distressingly

Antonyms for distressingly

deeply

hard

harder

hardest

seriously

distressingly

Synonyms for distressingly

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