incredibly
584
2.3
- adverb
- /ɪnˈkrɛdəbli/
:
extremadamente
- Wow, these are incredibly beautiful.
- incredibly difficult
- incredibly important
- incredibly powerful
My 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.
Academic text (2011) -
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
351
1.4
To show strong feeling or degree
350
1.0
By a very large amount
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
184
3.5
To a very unusual or surprising degree
137
3.9
To a much higher level than usual
129
3.1
To a very large degree
128
3.5
To a very large degree
122
2.3
In a way that causes surprise or wonder
111
1.0
In a very good and impressive way
107
3.7
In a way that is very surprising or seems impossible
103
3.0
By a very large amount
84
2.1
To a very great degree
80
4.1
To a much higher level than usual
70
3.5
To a very large degree
57
2.7
To a very great degree
57
4.6
To a very great degree
28
4.3
To do something in a very impressive or dramatic way
26
4.5
To a very high degree
21
3.5
To a very great degree
21
4.0
In a way that makes people very surprised
18
5.7
Very, to a high level
17
5.2
To a very great degree
15
4.3
In a very impressive and successful way
12
3.6
To a very high degree
8
4.2
In a very beautiful or amazing way
7
7.5
To a much greater degree than is normal
7
6.7
To a very surprising degree that is hard to believe
6
7.4
To a very large degree
5
5.4
To make a describing word much stronger
2
6.1
In a very impressive way that surprises people
2
7.7
In a very large and impressive way
1
4.9
In a way that is much better than usual and impresses people
1
7.0
To a very high degree, showing excellent quality
1
8.4
To a very high degree
1
9.8
So great that you cannot find words to describe it
To a very large degree
In an extremely impressive way that seems perfect
Antonyms
How Extraordinary
107
3.7
584
2.3
122
2.3
184
3.5
272
2.5
884
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.