AMAZINGLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does amazingly mean? 

• AMAZINGLY (adverb)
  The adverb AMAZINGLY has 1 sense:

1. in an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise

  Familiarity information: AMAZINGLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMAZINGLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise

Synonyms:

amazingly; astonishingly; surprisingly

Context example:

amazingly, he finished medical school in three years

Pertainym:

amazing (surprising greatly)

 Context examples 

He is the greatest coxcomb I ever saw, and amazingly disagreeable.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I am amazingly glad you did not keep to YOUR WORD.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Oh, dear, yes, he liked it amazingly!

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Imaging that uses radiofrequency waves and a strong magnetic field rather than x-rays to provide amazingly clear and detailed pictures of internal organs and tissues.

(Magnetic resonance imaging, NCI Thesaurus)

But the progress shoreward was slow; the progress down-stream amazingly rapid.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

And, indeed, though my mother's eyes are not so good as they were, she can see amazingly well still, thank God! with the help of spectacles.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Johnson turned obediently to the door, at the same time, over the cook’s shoulder, favouring me with an amazingly solemn and portentous wink as though to emphasize his interrupted remark and the need for me to be soft-spoken with the captain.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It was more than a month's hard-earned wages, and it reduced his stock of money amazingly; but when he added the hundred dollars he was to receive from the Examiner to the four hundred and twenty dollars that was the least The Youth's Companion could pay him, he felt that he had reduced the perplexity the unwonted amount of money had caused him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The conversation was amazingly indiscreet.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There have been two or three fine old trees cut down, that grew too near the house, and it opens the prospect amazingly, which makes me think that Repton, or anybody of that sort, would certainly have the avenue at Sotherton down: the avenue that leads from the west front to the top of the hill, you know, turning to Miss Bertram particularly as he spoke.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)