distressfully
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a distressful way; showing distress
Example Sentences
- "[4] And while such an one is ploughing distressfully up the road, it is not hard to understand his resentment, when he perceives cool persons in the meadows by the wayside, lying with a handkerchief over their ears and a glass at their elbow."
- "Oh, I don't understand you at all," Lydia said distressfully."
- ""Perhaps an hour and a half passed, quietly, except when, once in a way, the dogs would whine distressfully."
- ""I know it is," she sighed, distressfully re-reading it."
Etymology
From distressful + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more distressfully (comparative)
most distressfully (superlative)