devastatingly
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5.7
- adverb
- /ˈdɛvəˌsteɪtɪŋli/
:
devastadoramente
- It's a sensitive, simple, and devastatingly catchy pop song.
- devastatingly handsome
- devastatingly sexy
- devastatingly attractive
I know absolutely devastatingly awful adoption stories personally.
- I know absolutely devastatingly awful adoption stories personally.
- It's just devastatingly stupid and it's just here's what they did.
- Third kind of most devastatingly, most noticeable is that disparity in the way that we look at athletes physical prowess and ability.
Examples
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I know, you never realized how devastatingly good-looking I am.
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He delivered a devastatingly powerful speech that moved everyone in the audience.
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What a moving post; your writing is devastatingly beautiful, as always.
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How devastatingly complete her trust in him had been.
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Remember, your father was a devastatingly handsome man.
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Oh, and I hear the medium-height guy is extremely hilarious and devastatingly handsome...
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Ram's answer to all this was a devastatingly simple, "Why don't you just be who you are?"
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He's devastatingly handsome, isn't he?
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The Romney-Ryan campaign should be worried about the prospect of such a devastatingly truthful ad.
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A big thanks to Robert Rapier for a brilliant and devastatingly logical analysis of Khosla's fallacious arguments.
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Synonyms
584
2.3
To a very great degree
351
1.4
To show strong feeling or degree
350
1.0
By a very large amount
330
3.9
In a way that is very noticeable or extreme
236
3.6
Completely, to show that something is very strong or very great
230
1.4
To a very great degree, often before words like cold or sad
151
4.7
By a very large amount that makes it hard to refuse
110
4.2
Very strongly in a way that changes people's feelings or thoughts
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2.1
To a very great degree
57
2.7
To a very great degree
47
3.4
To a great degree
34
3.6
In a very strong and forceful way
28
4.3
To do something in a very impressive or dramatic way
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4.4
In a very beautiful or impressive way
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3.5
To a very great degree
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5.2
To a very great degree
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5.4
To a very great degree that you cannot count
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7.5
To a much greater degree than is normal
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6.7
To a very surprising degree that is hard to believe
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7.4
To a very large degree
5
5.4
To make a describing word much stronger
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5.8
To a very large degree
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6.1
In a very impressive way that surprises people
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9.2
In a way that makes people very surprised or impressed
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7.3
A way that makes someone feel very sad and defeated
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5.4
In a way that has a strong effect on people or things
1
7.9
In a way that makes people feel great shock or deep sadness
1
7.4
In a very strong way that is hard to resist
1
9.8
So great that you cannot find words to describe it
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8.4
To a very high degree
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6.4
To a very great degree used to show strong feeling
Antonyms
How Impressive
Surface Forms
Morphology
devastatingly = devastating (semi-transparent) = devastate + ing + ly
The step from the adjective 'devastating' to the adverb 'devastatingly' is a regular adjectival-to-adverbial suffixation with -ly.
Etymology
Devastatingly comes from devastate, which once meant 'to make empty' or 'destroy' and is related to vast, the English word 'vast' meaning very large or empty. A helpful way to remember the modern use is to think of something so strong it stuns people, so when someone is 'devastatingly' charming or handsome it means they have an extremely powerful effect.