In a way that causes anxiety about actual or potential problems.
the wind howled and my tin roof rattled worryingly
his words now sound worryingly prophetic
sentence adverbworryingly, the plan has been discarded
Example sentencesExamples
More worryingly, what cash they do have appears to be wasted on arms.
Pretty soon this all-purpose waste will have its appalling effect on insects stirring in the old boy's worryingly insecure glass tanks.
Worryingly, Japanese investors would have to wait for close to fifty years to be completely sure of making inflation-beating profits.
A milestone in the quest for insightful rapprochement between composition and improvisation, Joy Shapes is an incredibly opulent and worryingly irresistible album indeed.
In the process asylum seekers, and anybody else who looks foreign, have become the targets of racism which is worryingly on the increase.
Definition of worryingly in US English:
worryingly
adverbˈwərēiNGlēˈwəriɪŋli
In a way that causes anxiety about actual or potential problems.
the wind howled and my tin roof rattled worryingly
his words now sound worryingly prophetic
sentence adverbworryingly, the plan has been discarded
Example sentencesExamples
Worryingly, Japanese investors would have to wait for close to fifty years to be completely sure of making inflation-beating profits.
In the process asylum seekers, and anybody else who looks foreign, have become the targets of racism which is worryingly on the increase.
A milestone in the quest for insightful rapprochement between composition and improvisation, Joy Shapes is an incredibly opulent and worryingly irresistible album indeed.
More worryingly, what cash they do have appears to be wasted on arms.
Pretty soon this all-purpose waste will have its appalling effect on insects stirring in the old boy's worryingly insecure glass tanks.