galactically
- adverb
- /ɡəˈlæktɪkli/
- Specialized
- The universe is galactically vast.
Examples
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The two teams were galactically different in terms of skill and experience.
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The stars in the night sky are galactically distant from our planet.
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Her ideas were galactically ambitious, aiming to change the world.
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She viewed the stars galactically during her astronomy class.
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The notion of time changes galactically when we consider the vast distances between stars and galaxies.
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Scientists study the galactically large structures in the universe to understand cosmic evolution.
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When viewed from a galactically extended perspective, our solar system is just a tiny dot in the universe.
Synonyms
To be much larger or higher than normal
In a way that relates to space or seems very large and important
In a way that relates to the whole universe, its origin or structure
How Vast
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Galactically comes from the word galaxy, which itself comes from an old Greek word gala meaning 'milk', as in the 'Milky Way'. So galactically can mean 'about galaxies' or 'on a very large, space scale' because a galaxy is a huge group of stars.