DISTRESSFULLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does distressfully mean? 

• DISTRESSFULLY (adverb)
  The adverb DISTRESSFULLY has 1 sense:

1. with distress

  Familiarity information: DISTRESSFULLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISTRESSFULLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With distress

Context example:

'Doctor Rother says it's his only chance,' she added distressfully

Pertainym:

distressful (causing distress or worry or anxiety)

 Context examples 

They were afraid of my finding out the truth,” exclaimed Miss Mowcher, getting off the fender, and trotting up and down the kitchen with her two short arms distressfully lifted up, “because I am a sharp little thing—I need be, to get through the world at all!—and they deceived me altogether, and I gave the poor unfortunate girl a letter, which I fully believe was the beginning of her ever speaking to Littimer, who was left behind on purpose!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You must excuse me, indeed you must excuse me, cried Fanny, growing more and more red from excessive agitation, and looking distressfully at Edmund, who was kindly observing her; but unwilling to exasperate his brother by interference, gave her only an encouraging smile.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)