way
- adverb
- /weɪ/
- Informal
- And your drinking has been way worse than normal.
- way too
- way more
- way up
But the Patreon class goes way, well beyond that.
- But the Patreon class goes way, well beyond that.
- In fact, we will fail way more than we will succeed.
- This was way, way, way, way, way beyond that.
- And that is, there is just way too much testing.
- I was like, that person sounds way better than the ENFJ.
- I mean, that sounds like way easier and also fun.
- I should deep clean my brushes way more, but I don't.
- thing and I trusted it way more than this quite honestly.
- you know, like I feel like I'm capable of way more. My tour
- The people listened way, way too much according to award.
- And that's even if you're working way more than full time hours.
- And that that's, that's just way too short, right?
Examples
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And that is, there is just way too much testing.
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It's just way out of hand.
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That leads me to believe that way more of us have it already.
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I mean, that sounds like way easier and also fun.
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And this case is obviously way beyond her.
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We're operating way beyond capacity.
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But if you really want to make a change, it's got to be way more personal than that.
Academic text (2006) -
"In the last seven or eight years, our production has gone way up," he notes.
Academic text (1999) -
In fact, we will fail way more than we will succeed.
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This project is taking way longer than I thought it would.
Synonyms
To a very great degree
To a very high degree, often about skill or rank
To a very large degree
To a very large degree
To a very high degree
To a large degree
To a very large degree
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
To learn something through mistakes and problems instead of taking an easier path
- Informal
Find out by going through a difficult or painful experience instead of being warned
Compounds
A group of stars that contains our solar system and looks like a band of light in the night sky
A large group of stars that contains the solar system and looks like a faint milky band in the sky
- Specialized
Point in the sky showing the direction the Sun and solar system move among the stars
- Slur
A way of behaving that shows you are very gentle and easily upset, often used to insult men
- Specialized
The time a light signal takes to travel in one direction from Earth to a planet like Mars
- Specialized
A device that lets you turn a light on or off from two different places
How Much
Surface Forms
Etymology
Way as an informal adverb meaning 'very much' grew from the idea of distance, as in 'a long way'. A helpful way to remember is to think 'way better' like 'much better', coming from 'by a long way'.