disappointingly
/dɪsəpˈɔɪntɪŋli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.48 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a disappointing manner.
Example Sentences
- "I spent countless hours revising, but, disappointingly, I still failed the exam."
- "The result, disappointingly, is a scattershot work that is, by turns, entertaining and wearisome, energetic and hokey, delightfully evocative and cheaply sensational; dead-on in its conjuring of zeitgeist-y atmospherics, but often slow-footed and ham-handed in its orchestration of social details."
Etymology
Etymology tree English disappointing Middle English -ly English -ly English disappointingly From disappointing + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more disappointingly (comparative)
most disappointingly (superlative)