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EXTRAORDINARILY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does extraordinarily mean?
• EXTRAORDINARILY (adverb)
The adverb EXTRAORDINARILY has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: EXTRAORDINARILY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extremely
Synonyms:
extraordinarily; inordinately
Context example:
it will be an extraordinarily painful step to negotiate
Pertainym:
extraordinary (far more than usual or expected)
Context examples
He was extraordinarily receptive and responsive, while his imagination, pitched high, was ever at work establishing relations of likeness and difference.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Furthermore, the study has demonstrated that the taxonomic turnover of these communities really is extraordinarily fast.
(Study by UGR and MIT reveals microbial plankton live in complex communities, University of Granada)
The country detective was a stout, puffy, red man, whose face was only redeemed from grossness by two extraordinarily bright eyes, almost hidden behind the heavy creases of cheek and brow.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mary spoke with animation of their meeting with, or rather missing, Mr Elliot so extraordinarily.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
“It's extraordinarily legal and formal,” said I. “I don't think I ever saw such a stiff hand.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The instant that the Professor had disappeared, it struck me what a really extraordinarily lucky chance Fate had placed in my way.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If your birthday falls on January 11, plus or minus five days, you will get a double dip of pleasure from this extraordinarily romantic full moon.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
We have bought equipment like sensor cameras and bio-acoustic devices that listen for the night parrots and extraordinarily we have got a photo of a night parrot flying across one of the sensor cameras.
(Aboriginal Rangers Find Evidence of One of Australia’s Rarest Birds, VOA)
But she is such an extraordinarily dear girl herself, that it's possible she may have imparted something of those virtues to me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He staggered into his room and sat down on the bed, the envelope still unopened, and in that moment came understanding to him how people suddenly fall dead upon receipt of extraordinarily good news.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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