Distressingly

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		In the past, patients with chronic thrombocytopenia died of hemorrhage with distressingly predictable frequency. (references)
Economic History	Bangladesh	While the Awami League government has managed to maintain economic growth levels around 4%-5%, and single-digit inflation--except for a period of months after the 1998 floods--per capita income levels still remain distressingly low, at less than $1 per day. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Distressingly

"Distressingly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Distressingly" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Modern Translation: Distressingly

Language		Translations for "distressingly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		peinliche (disconcertingly, embarrassingly). (various references)

Hungarian		lehangolóan (depressingly, disconcertingly, dismally), aggasztóan. (various references)

Pig Latin		istressinglyday

Turkish		acıklı bir biçimde (distressfully), üzücü bir şekilde (distressfully). (various references)

Ukrainian		болісно (cruelly, grievously). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Rhyming with "Distressingly"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "distressingly" (pronounced di'stre"singlē)
7	-r e" s i ng l ē	depressingly.
5	-s i ng l ē	convincingly, embarrassingly, increasingly, menacingly.
4	-i ng l ē	accordingly, accusingly, admiringly, agonizingly, alarmingly, amazingly, amusingly, appallingly, appealingly, approvingly, astonishingly, astoundingly, breathtakingly, charmingly, chillingly, compellingly, confusingly, correspondingly, demandingly, devastatingly, disappointingly, disarmingly, disparagingly, disturbingly, exceedingly, excruciatingly, fittingly, fleetingly, frighteningly, frowningly, frustratingly, glowingly, grudgingly, haltingly, hauntingly, interestingly, intriguingly, jokingly, kiddingly, knowingly, laughingly, longingly, lovingly, maddeningly, misleadingly, movingly, numbingly, obligingly, overwhelmingly, painstakingly, pleasingly, reassuringly, refreshingly, resoundingly, screamingly, seemingly, shockingly, smilingly, soothingly, sparingly, sportingly, startlingly, strikingly, stunningly, surprisingly, tantalizingly, tellingly, threateningly, unfailingly, unhesitatingly, unknowingly, unsurprisingly, unthinkingly, unwillingly, unwittingly, warningly, willingly, wittingly.
3	-ng l ē	gangly, kingly, Langley, strongly, wrongly.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Anagrams: Distressingly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-i-l-n-r-s-s-s-t-y"
	-2 letters: distressing, gristliness.
	-3 letters: disserting, grisliness, sinisterly, stringless, synergists.
	-4 letters: delisting, desisting, dirtiness, disinters, dressings, grisliest, insisters, relisting, resisting, restyling, rieslings, rigidness, ringsides, sistering, sterlings, stingless, stressing, stylisers, stylising, synergids, synergist.
	-5 letters: desiring, diligent, dingiest, dirtying, disinter, dissents, disserts, distress, dressily, dressing, gelidity, glistens, glisters, gristles, idylists, igniters, inditers, insiders, insisted, insister, lignites, lingiest, listings.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-g-i-i-l-n-r-s-s-s-t-y"
	+3 letters: strongyloidiases.
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