killerly impressive
- adjective
- Slang
:
impresionante
- Her presentation was killerly impressive and wowed the entire audience.
Examples
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That skateboard trick was killerly impressive, even the judges stood up to applaud.
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The graphics in the new video game are killerly impressive for any platform.
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The performance was killerly impressive!
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I found the movie to be killerly impressive.
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Her presentation was killerly impressive and wowed the entire audience.
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That skateboard trick was killerly impressive; even the judges stood up to applaud.
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The graphics in the new video game are killerly impressive for any platform.
Synonyms
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1.0
Causing great surprise and admiration
968
2.1
Very impressive and causing a strong feeling of wonder
815
3.3
Very strong and often causing great damage
626
1.9
Very good and impressive, making you feel pleased
588
2.8
Unusual and easy to notice because it is different or surprising
584
3.4
Causing people to admire it, like a building or performance, because it is very good
299
3.9
Very impressive and beautiful in appearance or style
265
3.5
Very impressive and exciting to look at
257
3.4
Much better than most others in skill or quality
113
5.4
Very impressive and much better than normal
30
3.2
Very impressive and grand in appearance or style
24
5.3
Very large and surprising in a way that shocks you
21
4.1
Very good and impressive
19
6.7
Very large or impressive in a way that amazes people
16
5.6
Causes people to feel great respect and wonder because it is very impressive
5
4.2
So surprising that it seems hard to believe
5
3.4
Very surprising and making you feel great wonder
4
7.9
Very good and impressive
3
7.9
Very good and impressive
2
2.8
Very impressive and exciting
1
4.1
Very impressive and making people feel amazed
1
5.5
Very impressive and much better than you expect
Very impressive and surprising in a strong informal way
Antonyms
How Impressive
- Slang
257
3.4
588
2.8
584
3.4
112
3.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
killerly + impressive
The phrase is transparently built as an intensifier modifying 'impressive' (i.e. 'extremely impressive') by deriving an adverbial sense from 'killer' + -ly, so a learner who recognises the slang use of 'killer' could infer the meaning. However, 'killerly' is nonstandard / not attested in dictionaries and 'killer' also has a literal violent sense that can mislead learners, so the relation is not fully predictable for an average B1 learner without exposure.
Etymology
Killerly impressive comes from the informal word killer, which used to mean 'someone who kills' but later became a way to say 'very good' or 'powerful'. Putting that strong word before impressive makes the idea more powerful, so killerly impressive means 'extremely impressive'.