deucedly
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9.9
- adverb
- /ˈdjuːsɪdli/
- Archaic
:
malditamente
- Besides, this climate's just too deucedly cold in the winter to dress very fancy.
Examples
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She found the math problem deucedly complicated and needed extra help to solve it.
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Deucedly fine blades... ...considering they were made by trolls.
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This is deucedly uncomfortable.
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Liz: I hope you are deucedly uncomfortable with the assumption of a steady state of ignorance.
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They're so deucedly erratic!
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Toby has the most splendid sense of smell... of any hound I've trained, but he can be deucedly frisky.
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The hike was deucedly tiring, but the view from the top made it worthwhile.
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After waiting for hours, the concert was deucedly delayed due to technical difficulties.
Synonyms
351
1.4
To show strong feeling or degree
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1.4
To a very great degree, often before words like cold or sad
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3.2
In a very wild and uncontrolled way
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4.6
To a very great degree
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4.3
In a way that is very wrong or extreme
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3.9
To a very great degree
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3.0
To a degree that is more than needed or acceptable
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6.5
In a way that is very bad or not good enough
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4.4
Shows that something is very bad, unpleasant, or extreme
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4.9
So strong or bad that you cannot stand it
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7.5
To a much greater degree than is normal
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6.2
To a very great degree
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3.9
To a very high degree
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7.3
Much more expensive than it should be
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8.1
In a way that makes something very bad or annoying
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9.9
A word people say before an adjective to show strong annoyance or emphasis
To an extremely large degree
Shows that a describing word is very strong
Antonyms
How Intense
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Deucedly comes from the old word deuce, which was used as a mild swear meaning 'devil'. People used deuce to make a sentence stronger, so deucedly now means 'very' or 'extremely'.