DISCOURAGINGLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does discouragingly mean? 

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

1. in a discouraging manner

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISCOURAGINGLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a discouraging manner

Context example:

the failure rate on the bar exam is discouragingly high

Antonym:

encouragingly (in an encouraging manner)

Pertainym:

discouraging (depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action)

 Context examples 

Mr. Spenlow shook his head discouragingly.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

So poor Meg sang and rocked, told stories and tried every sleep-prevoking wile she could devise, but all in vain, the big eyes wouldn't shut, and long after Daisy had gone to byelow, like the chubby little bunch of good nature she was, naughty Demi lay staring at the light, with the most discouragingly wide-awake expression of countenance.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)