smashingly
1
7.9
- adverb
- /ˈsmæʃɪŋli/
- Archaic
:
espléndidamente
- The presentation was delivered smashingly, impressing everyone in the audience.
Examples
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That step's smashingly good!
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David, I'm wishing a smashingly magnificent day for you today... and forever! Thank you so much again for being the New World Facilitator that you are!
Blog text (34) -
We all laughed and got along smashingly after that.
Blog text (11) -
And so she does smashingly at 54.
Blog text (4) -
Did you learn to swim? he asks them, and Jacob says smashingly, yes.
Fiction book (1999) -
I'm sure she'll do smashingly.
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And the puppy peed in the house right after he came back inside from being peed on, so this day is going smashingly.
Blog text (7) -
In that trade, the Kings acquired Jarret Stoll and Matt Greene, two players who helped them to their first Stanley Cup win this year, so the Kings come out of the whole ordeal smashingly.
Blog text (8) -
All this stuff about advancing the message, or cleaning up the message, or rendering the message more palatable is off the point: we were shown how to win, smashingly, two years ago—and it was we ourselves who showed us.
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They organized the event smashingly, attracting a large crowd and receiving rave reviews.
Synonyms
350
1.8
In a way that gets the result you want
184
3.5
To a very unusual or surprising degree
172
2.8
In a way that is very surprising and hard to believe
111
1.0
In a very good and impressive way
54
4.1
In a very clever and skillful way that impresses people
28
4.3
To do something in a very impressive or dramatic way
28
5.1
In an exciting way that attracts a lot of attention
23
4.4
In a very beautiful or impressive way
21
3.5
To a very great degree
17
5.2
To a very great degree
15
4.3
In a very impressive and successful way
15
4.6
In a very impressive and beautiful way
15
4.1
With pride and happiness after a success
14
3.8
In a way that makes people feel respect
12
3.3
In a very good way that shows great skill
12
3.6
To a very high degree
12
3.9
In a way that impresses people very much
12
3.9
In a very beautiful or impressive way
11
4.6
In a very impressive way
9
5.3
In a way that shows great skill
8
2.8
In a very good way that shows a lot of skill
7
6.7
To a very surprising degree that is hard to believe
6
4.3
Making people feel very surprised
6
2.8
In a very good and successful way
3
5.8
To a very large degree
3
4.7
In a very impressive way that makes people admire it
3
6.6
In a very impressive or grand way that seems heroic
2
5.3
In a very bright and impressive way
2
6.1
In a very impressive way that surprises people
2
7.7
In a very large and impressive way
2
9.2
In a way that makes people very surprised or impressed
2
6.7
In a way that makes people feel great surprise and admiration
1
4.9
In a way that is much better than usual and impresses people
1
6.9
In a skillful and perfect way
1
9.6
Someone acts in a bold and confident way that attracts attention
1
7.1
In a very large and powerful way
1
8.4
To a very high degree
In a very successful and impressive way
In a very good and impressive way
In a way that makes something look very tall or impressive
Antonyms
How Impressive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Smashingly comes from the simple verb smash, which means 'to hit or break', plus the ending -ly that makes it a word that describes how something is done. People began to call a very successful show or song a 'smash' ('a hit'), so smashingly means 'in a very impressive, excellent, or successful way'.