Wiktionary
adv. In a manner that gratify
WordNet
adv. in a gratifying manner; "the performance was at a gratifyingly high level" [syn: satisfyingly]
Usage examples of "gratifyingly".
In a gratifyingly short time she demonstrated how allomorphism might be banished from the Haluk genome.
Cantra sighed lightly and sat in one of the shorter chairs, her feet gratifyingly on the floor.
Yet compared to their earlier slow progress, it was gratifyingly rapid.
When she drove down Main Street a little shy of eight, it was already busier than an ordinary Saturday noon, and among the faces on the sidewalk there were gratifyingly few she knew.
I start to do some warm-up moves at the edge of the dance-floor, a little gingerly at first, but I'm glad I wore my brogues instead of my Green Flash, as the flat soles slide gratifyingly on the parquet floor, giving me a kind of funky, loose-limbed feel.