breathtakingly
- adverb
- /ˈbreɪθˌteɪkɪŋli/
- The landscape was breathtakingly beautiful, with mountains that seemed to touch the sky.
It turns out to be breathtakingly more general than that.
- It turns out to be breathtakingly more general than that.
- And so the civil rights movement was overwhelmingly, breathtakingly full of awe for me.
- But but he was someone who, like you really knew a comedian who was breathtakingly funny, but also knew this.
Examples
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Well, first of all, it's absolutely beautiful part of the world, Colombia, breathtakingly beautiful.
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Also influenced by Jerry Lee Lewis, he mixes traditional bluegrass music with a breathtakingly energetic stage show.
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You are still breathtakingly beautiful.
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The air was clean, it was breathtakingly beautiful and best of all, it was far away from everyone and everything.
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You can always turn back to them and look breathtakingly beautiful as always!
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In her guise as the Lady of the Sea, however, she was breathtakingly beautiful.
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When you're surrounded by this type of location, which is just breathtakingly beautiful.
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Joanna, you have a beautiful eye for choosing absolutely breathtakingly fabulous photos!
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For those who'd like to experience "virtual reality," we recommend Stereo, where photography comes breathtakingly alive in three dimensions.
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The dissent, written by Justice Scalia, says this is shocking, breathtakingly broad, and will lead to lots of new litigation.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
In a way that is very surprising and hard to believe
In a way that causes surprise or wonder
In a very good and impressive way
In a way that is very surprising or seems impossible
To do something in a very impressive or dramatic way
In a very beautiful or impressive way
To a very great degree
In a way that makes people very surprised
In a very careful and beautiful way
To a very great degree
In a very impressive and successful way
In a very impressive and beautiful way
In a way that makes people feel respect
To a very high degree
In a way that impresses people very much
In a very beautiful or impressive way
To a very surprising degree that is hard to believe
Making people feel very surprised
In a very beautiful and impressive way
With slow, proud movements that look impressive like a king or castle
In a very beautiful and impressive way that amazes people
In a very impressive way that makes people admire it
In a very bright and impressive way
In a very impressive way that surprises people
In a very large and impressive way
In a way that makes people feel great surprise and admiration
In a bright and beautiful way that impresses people
To a very high degree
In a way that attracts and holds people's attention
Antonyms
How Impressive
Surface Forms
Morphology
breathtakingly = breathtaking (transparent) = breath + taking + ly
Formed by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly' to the transparent adjective 'breathtaking', producing an adverb with the expected meaning.
Etymology
The word breathtakingly comes from breathtaking plus the ending -ly. A breathtaking thing 'takes your breath'—it is so beautiful or shocking you almost stop breathing, so breathtakingly means 'in a very impressive way'.