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disappointingly

disappointingly adverb: in a disappointing manner.

Adverb

disappointingly (comparative more disappointingly, superlative most disappointingly)

  1. In a disappointing manner.
    • 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.2013 September 10, Michiko Kakutani, “A Calamity Tailor-Made for Internet Conspiracy Theories”, in The New York Times

Forms of disappointingly

comparativemore disappointingly
superlativemost disappointingly

Origin of disappointingly

From disappointing + -ly.

Questions about disappointingly

What does disappointingly mean?
Disappointingly means in a disappointing manner.
What part of speech is disappointingly?
Disappointingly is an adverb.

Words near disappointingly in the dictionary

  1. disappointer
  2. disappointers
  3. disappointest
  4. disappointeth
  5. disappointing
  6. disappointingly
  7. disappointingness
  8. disappointment
  9. disappointments
  10. disappoints
  11. disappoynt

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