INCREDIBLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does incredibly mean? 

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

1. not easy to believe

2. exceedingly; extremely

  Familiarity information: INCREDIBLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCREDIBLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not easy to believe

Synonyms:

implausibly; improbably; incredibly; unbelievably

Context example:

incredibly, she survived the crash

Antonym:

credibly (easy to believe on the basis of available evidence)

Pertainym:

incredible (beyond belief or understanding)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Exceedingly; extremely

Synonyms:

fabulously; fantastically; incredibly

Context example:

behind you the coastal hills plunge to the incredibly blue sea backed by the Turkish mountains

 Context examples 

Those discs can be incredibly vast, and so could the planetary system that grows out of them.

(Thousands of Planets Could Be Orbiting around Black Holes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Scientists had to use incredibly fast cameras to see the whole movement.

(Dracula Ant Found to Be Fastest Creature on Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Then, and not until then, would he flash from his hiding- place, a grey projectile, incredibly swift, never failing its mark—the fleeing squirrel that fled not fast enough.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The murderer was gone long ago; but there lay his victim in the middle of the lane, incredibly mangled.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A confidential meeting could lead to an incredibly lucrative offer on December 15 (plus or minus two days), lifting your spirits and showing you that indeed, your ship has finally come in.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

In recent years, the Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy's H.E.S.S. experiment has identified more than 80 incredibly powerful sites of gamma rays, called high-energy gamma-ray sources, in our Milky Way.

(Pulse of a Dead Star Powers Intense Gamma Rays, NASA)

Transmissible cancers are incredibly rare in nature, yet have arisen in Tasmanian devils on at least two separate occasions.

(Human anti-cancer drugs could help treat transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils, University of Cambridge)

Extreme heat, incredibly high pressures and poor access to nutrients typically complicate the ability for life to survive and thrive.

(Researchers Create New Model of Ecosystem Hidden Beneath Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The new super-fast film camera will therefore be able to capture incredibly rapid processes in chemistry, physics, biology and biomedicine, that so far have not been caught on film.

(World's Fastest Film Camera, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Dental enamel is extremely abundant and it is incredibly durable, which is why a high proportion of fossil records are teeth.

(‘Game-changing’ research could solve evolution mysteries, University of Cambridge)