astronomically
7
5.8
- adverb
- /ˌæstrəˈnɑːmɪkli/
:
astronómicamente
- If you buy a lottery ticket, you are at an astronomically high risk of losing your entire investment.
- astronomically high
You know, five years, astronomically speaking, is nothing, right?
- You know, five years, astronomically speaking, is nothing, right?
- So listening made his program astronomically better.
- And the chances of that occurring are so literally, astronomically small.
- There are others that arguably in in smaller communities can drive prices astronomically.
- I was driving by Costco and dude, the line for the gas was like astronomically long.
- It requires a will of steel to block their feed, but your mental health may bounce back and improve astronomically if you do it.
- I actually slept pretty well last night I'm despite it being a foreign location, same time zone that helps just astronomically amazing.
Examples
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Both education returns and on-the-job trainees have grown astronomically.
Academic text (1990) -
The lines showed a keen insight in their choice of problems to study, focusing on astronomically important issues that produced "good science."
Academic text (1992) -
So listening made his program astronomically better.
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l hear it's astronomically expensive.
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The costs are astronomically high, and they are likely only to continue to rise.
Blog text (21) -
As an additional result of the game's structure, an astronomically large number of equilibria can emerge.
Academic text (2005) -
Astronomically expensive, they dealt with clientele who had lots of cash and lots of unreported income.
Fiction book (1995) -
He's repealing W's tax cut that caused a significant portion of our now astronomically high national debt.
Blog text (16) -
Although the consumer would undoubtedly be upset, he would not file a lawsuit to recover two dollars because the cost of the lawsuit would be astronomically high in comparison to the two-dollar compensation.
Academic text (2017) -
The cost of living in the city has increased astronomically over the past decade.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To a very great degree
584
2.3
To a very great degree
350
1.0
By a very large amount
137
3.9
To a much higher level than usual
129
3.1
To a very large degree
128
3.5
To a very large degree
103
3.0
By a very large amount
84
2.1
To a very great degree
80
4.3
In a way that causes a very large and sudden change
70
3.5
To a very large degree
57
2.7
To a very great degree
57
4.6
To a very great degree
50
3.9
To a very great degree
47
3.4
To a great degree
17
5.2
To a very great degree
10
5.4
To a very great degree that you cannot count
7
7.5
To a much greater degree than is normal
6
7.4
To a very large degree
3
5.8
To a very large degree
2
7.7
In a very large and impressive way
1
3.7
In a very large and clearly visible way
1
7.3
Much more expensive than it should be
1
7.6
By a very large amount that cannot be measured
1
8.0
Describes something that is very large or extreme, used for emphasis
1
8.9
In a very large way
1
6.4
To a very great degree used to show strong feeling
To a very large degree
Antonyms
How Much
Surface Forms
Morphology
astronomically = astronomical (semi-transparent) = astronomy + ical + ly
Forming an adverb with the productive suffix '-ly' from the adjective 'astronomical' is a regular and transparent process.
Etymology
The word astronomically comes from astronomy, and the root astron means 'star'. Because stars are so huge and far away, people began using astronomical to mean 'very large', so astronomically means 'to a very large amount'.