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 large degree
To a very high degree
To be much larger or higher than normal
To a very large degree
In a very large and impressive way
In a very large and clearly visible way
In a very large and powerful way
To a very great degree
To a very great degree used to show strong feeling
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.