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extraordinarily

adverbattested in dialogue

In an extraordinary manner.

adverb

  1. 1

    In an extraordinary manner.

    All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.

    With such a skewed probability, the quantum reasoning goes, we have long overlooked the tiny chance that the baseball can (and, on extraordinarily rare occasions, will) land somewhere completely different.

Etymology

Etymology tree English extraordinary Middle English -ly English -ly English extraordinarily From extraordinary + -ly.

Forms

comparative
more extraordinarily
superlative
most extraordinarily
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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