surpassingly
1
8.4
- adverb
- /sərˈpæsɪŋli/
- She'd been very young and surpassingly foolish, and she'd had no qualms about braving the extensive gardens of a country estate in the dark to give herself to a handsome young man in the Duke of Northumberland's household.
- surpassingly beautiful
- surpassingly strange
Examples
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It was not a young face, but it was, in the prince's experience, surpassingly beautiful.
Fiction book (1993) -
But I mean, these castings are so surpassingly lovely.
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I have heard that your smile is surpassingly sweet, and I'm not afraid of it.
Fiction book (2001) -
And like I said, I am surpassingly, exceedingly lucky.
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I had been walking steadily most of the afternoon, and I was beginning to feel tired, hungry, and surpassingly bored with my own thoughts.
Academic text (2009) -
The lives of villagers were surpassingly dull for the most part.
Fiction book (1990) -
Admittedly, the early Middle Ages were a surpassingly harsh period in Western European history.
Blog text (8) -
It was beautiful, surpassingly beautiful, enchantingly beautiful; and now it is lost, and I shall not see it anymore.
Fiction book (1999) -
Bennington was full of gorgeous, smart, tightly wound women, in the proportion of three to every one male; the teachers were surpassingly hip; the Vermont green was seven versions of pastoral.
Academic text (2008) -
The artwork was surpassingly beautiful, captivating everyone who entered the gallery.
Synonyms
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1.0
To a very great degree
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2.3
To a very great degree
312
1.0
By a very large amount
131
3.9
To a much higher level than usual
112
3.1
To a very large degree
107
3.5
To a very large degree
101
1.0
In a very good and impressive way
97
3.0
By a very large amount
92
2.1
To a very great degree
73
4.1
To a much higher level than usual
54
4.6
To a very great degree
51
3.9
To a very great degree
25
4.5
To a very high degree
18
3.5
To a very great degree
17
5.7
Very, to a high level
16
5.2
To a very great degree
16
7.4
To a very large degree
15
4.6
In a very impressive and beautiful way
14
4.3
In a very impressive and successful way
12
3.6
To a very high degree
8
4.4
Says that something is extremely large, important, or impressive
7
4.2
In a very beautiful or amazing way
6
6.7
To a very surprising degree that is hard to believe
3
5.8
To a very large degree
3
6.8
In a very beautiful and impressive way that amazes people
2
7.7
In a very large and impressive way
2
9.9
To an unusually great degree
2
6.1
In a very impressive way that surprises people
1
4.9
In a way that is much better than usual and impresses people
1
4.7
In a very impressive way that makes people admire it
1
8.5
In a way that is much better than usual
1
7.0
To a very high degree, showing excellent quality
1
7.4
In a way that makes something look very tall or impressive
1
9.9
In an extremely impressive way that seems perfect
How Exceptional
Surface Forms
Morphology
surpassingly = surpassing (transparent) = surpass + ing + ly
Formed by adding the adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'surpassing' (exceptional), so the meaning 'to an extraordinary degree' is directly derived.
Etymology
Surpassingly comes from sur- ('over') and pass ('to go by'), and you can see this in surpass, which means to go beyond. So surpassingly describes something that goes beyond the usual limit, in other words 'extremely'.