单词 | distressingly |
释义 | distressinglyadv. In a distressing manner; distressfully, painfully. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > [adverb] > in annoying or vexatious manner noyfully1395 annoyously?c1400 noyously1483 troublously1538 uncommodiously1545 wretchedly1546 irksomely1549 incommodiously1551 troublesomely1591 vexingly1599 cumbersomely1611 vexatiously1642 discomfortably1653 importunely1658 gratingly1683 mortifyingly1748 distressingly1786 gallingly1802 annoyingly1806 peskily1833 pesky1833 tryingly1841 discomfortingly1869 balls-achingly1972 1786 Miss Clayton in M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. III. 411 It was serious, but not distressingly so. 1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi xx. 408 Our progress up was distressingly slow. 1870 R. A. Proctor Other Worlds than Ours vii. 170 Prolonged and bitter frosts, contrasting so distressingly with the imagined geniality of his summer weather. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < adv.1786 |
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