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Distressful vs Distressfully - What's the difference?

distressful | distressfully |

As an adjective distressful

is causing or having distress, strain, or anxiety.

As an adverb distressfully is

in a distressful way; showing distress.

distressful

English

Alternative forms

* distressfull (archaic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Causing or having distress, strain, or anxiety.

    • distressfully

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a distressful way; showing distress
  • * {{quote-book, year=1877, author=Robert Louis Stevenson, title=Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter=An Apology for Idlers, edition= citation
    • , passage=[4] And while such an one is ploughing distressfully up the road, it is not hard to understand his resentment, when he perceives cool persons in the meadows by the wayside, lying with a handkerchief over their ears and a glass at their elbow. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1910, author=Grace MacGowan Cooke, title=The Power and the Glory, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Oh, I don't understand you at all," Lydia said distressfully . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1912, author=William Hope Hodgson, title=Carnacki, The Ghost Finder, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Perhaps an hour and a half passed, quietly, except when, once in a way, the dogs would whine distressfully . }}

    Related terms

    * distressingly