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SUPERLATIVELY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does superlatively mean?
• SUPERLATIVELY (adverb)
The adverb SUPERLATIVELY has 1 sense:
1. to a superlative degree
Familiarity information: SUPERLATIVELY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
To a superlative degree
Pertainym:
superlative (highest in quality)
Context examples
Appearances would warrant that conclusion: and, no doubt (though, with an audacity that wants chastising out of you, you seem to question it), they will be a superlatively happy pair.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Their table was superlatively stupid.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
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