EXTREMELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does extremely mean? 

• EXTREMELY (adverb)
  The adverb EXTREMELY has 2 senses:

1. to a high degree or extent; favorably or with much respect

2. to an extreme degree

  Familiarity information: EXTREMELY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXTREMELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To a high degree or extent; favorably or with much respect

Synonyms:

extremely; highly

Context example:

extremely interesting

Sense 2

Meaning:

To an extreme degree

Synonyms:

deathly; exceedingly; extremely; super

Context example:

as a child, I was deathly afraid of snakes

Pertainym:

extreme (of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity)

 Context examples 

Unfortunately for her, she had lost her glasses in the scuffle, and as she was extremely short-sighted she was really helpless without them.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Inspector Gregory, to whom the case has been committed, is an extremely competent officer.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You will find it laid out upon the bed in your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should both be extremely obliged.’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was quite young, wonderfully handsome, extremely agreeable, and, to crown the whole, he meant to be at the next assembly with a large party.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It is about one third as large as the Isle of Wight, and extremely fruitful: it is governed by the head of a certain tribe, who are all magicians.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Many planets are gathered in your seventh house of committed partnerships, so the outlook for you is either extremely happy or not happy at all, with almost no room in between.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Martin, who was extremely strong-headed, marvelled at the other's capacity for liquor, and ever and anon broke off to marvel at the other's conversation.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Though extremely weak, he had no sensation of pain.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

My back was aching sorely, and I felt extremely tired and hungry.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I felt extremely flattered by this arrangement, and we commenced carrying it into execution that very evening.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)