- 1令人灰心地;使人氣餒地
Discouragingly means ‘in a way that makes you lose confidence or the will to continue.’ You put it on how something happens, or how strong something is: progress is discouragingly slow; the room looked discouragingly empty. It is a writing word. Though actually, in speech people usually keep the shorter form — That’s discouraging — or they say in a discouraging way. You will see the -ly word in news and essays more than you will hear it on the bus. It is about confidence, not about rude manners.
core核心畫面
組成From discouraging + -ly (turns the describing word into a how-word).
同家族的字
- discouragingthe describing word this how-word is built from
- discouragethe verb at the root of the family
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
discouraginglyadv
- 1
In a discouraging manner.
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