way
- adverb
- /weɪ/
- Informal
- And your drinking has been way worse than normal.
- way too
- way more
- way up
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Watch on YouTubeBut 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
A device that lets you turn a light on or off from two different places
- 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
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'.