incredibly
855
2.3
- adverb
- /ɪnˈkrɛdəbli/
- Wow, these are incredibly beautiful.
- incredibly difficult
- incredibly important
- incredibly powerful
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Watch on YouTubeMy friends who are incredibly green care a lot.
- My friends who are incredibly green care a lot.
- But the casting out part was like incredibly, incredibly painful.
- These trees become these incredibly complex worlds of life.
- And it's going to have, I think, incredibly negative effects.
- I mean, God is an incredibly creative creator.
- And they were incredibly sweet, incredibly eager and grateful.
- Well, it's to observe things that move on incredibly short time frames.
- There are some incredibly powerful people out there.
- I could jump incredibly high when I was that age.
- I'm just, I'm just so incredibly happy right now.
- Our image of children is incredibly simple and sentimental.
Examples
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So I'm just incredibly proud that this happened.
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It's just so incredibly fast and so good.
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And it's going to have, I think, incredibly negative effects.
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First, it makes it incredibly hard for us to focus.
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There are some incredibly powerful people out there.
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In your case, it's incredibly fast.
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I live in a state whose history is both complicated and incredibly significant.
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And suddenly it was this new, incredibly transformed world.
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Let's go get coffee in this incredibly spacious store.
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The fireworks display was incredibly spectacular, lighting up the night sky.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To a large degree
∞
1.0
To a very great degree
392
1.4
To a very great degree, often before words like cold or sad
340
1.4
To show strong feeling or degree
312
1.0
By a very large amount
243
3.6
Completely, to show that something is very strong or very great
165
3.5
To a very unusual or surprising degree
131
3.9
To a much higher level than usual
130
2.3
In a way that causes surprise or wonder
112
3.1
To a very large degree
107
3.5
To a very large degree
101
1.0
In a very good and impressive way
98
3.7
In a way that is very surprising or seems impossible
97
3.0
By a very large amount
94
2.7
To a very great degree
92
2.1
To a very great degree
73
4.1
To a much higher level than usual
69
3.5
To a very large degree
54
4.6
To a very great degree
28
4.3
To do something in a very impressive or dramatic way
25
4.5
To a very high degree
20
4.0
In a way that makes people very surprised
18
3.5
To a very great degree
17
5.7
Very, to a high level
16
5.2
To a very great degree
16
7.4
To a very large degree
14
4.3
In a very impressive and successful way
12
3.6
To a very high degree
8
5.4
To make a describing word much stronger
7
7.5
To a much greater degree than is normal
7
4.2
In a very beautiful or amazing way
6
6.7
To a very surprising degree that is hard to believe
2
7.7
In a very large and impressive way
2
6.1
In a very impressive way that surprises people
1
4.9
In a way that is much better than usual and impresses people
1
8.4
To a very high degree
1
9.8
So great that you cannot find words to describe it
1
7.0
To a very high degree, showing excellent quality
1
9.9
In an extremely impressive way that seems perfect
1
7.8
To a very large degree
Antonyms
How Extraordinary
98
3.7
855
2.3
130
2.3
165
3.5
281
2.5
894
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
incredibly = incredible (semi-transparent) = in + credible + ly
Formed by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly' to 'incredible'; the intensifying meaning of 'incredible' makes the adverb's meaning only partially predictable from its parts.
Etymology
Incredibly comes from the parts in- 'not' and cred 'to believe', the same root you see in credible and credit. So it literally meant 'not believable', and today we often use it to mean 'extremely' when something is very surprising or very great.