SHOCKINGLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shockingly mean? 

• SHOCKINGLY (adverb)
  The adverb SHOCKINGLY has 3 senses:

1. extremely

2. very badly

3. so as to shock the feelings

  Familiarity information: SHOCKINGLY used as an adverb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHOCKINGLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extremely

Context example:

teachers were shockingly underpaid

Sense 2

Meaning:

Very badly

Context example:

they behaved shockingly at the funeral

Pertainym:

shocking (giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation)

Sense 3

Meaning:

So as to shock the feelings

Context example:

Suddenly, shockingly, the clergyman's son was a desperado.

 Context examples 

This sudden noise startled us shockingly; but the news was good, for it was only six.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

How did these massive orbs form, and how did they wind up so shockingly close to their stars?

(Investigating the Mystery of Migrating 'Hot Jupiters', NASA)

A shockingly ugly old creature, miss; almost as black as a crock.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was of a livid chalky white, and with something set and rigid about it which was shockingly unnatural.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)