galactically
- adverb
- /ɡəˈlæktɪkli/
- Her galactically bad luck seemed to follow her everywhere she went.
- galactically stupid
Examples
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Performance chemicals, anabolic, you know, galactically delivered.
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Max Boot is not writing here about Petraeus and Broadwell, though he acknowledges their galactically bad judgment.
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Clearly, it showed the disconnect that exists in the disparity of real lives and the uppity, out-of-touch privileged rich who are galactically misinformed and/or uncaring.
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His ignorance is galactically overwhelming; I have never seen someone so uninformed.
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The project was galactically ambitious, aiming to solve problems that had baffled scientists for centuries.
Synonyms
To a much higher level than usual
By a very large amount
To a very great degree
To a very great degree
To a great degree
To a very great degree
To a very great degree
To a very high degree
To be much larger or higher than normal
To a very large degree
To a very large degree
In a very large and impressive way
In a very large and clearly visible way
To a very great degree
To a very great degree used to show strong feeling
In a very large and powerful way
How Extreme
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Galactically comes from the word galaxy, from an old Greek word gala meaning 'milk', like the 'Milky Way'. Because a galaxy is so enormous, people use galactically to mean 'very' or 'extremely' when they want strong emphasis.