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extraordinarily

adverb

  1. extremely; strongly emphatic
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adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English extraordinary Middle English -ly English -ly English extraordinarily From extraordinary + -ly.

  1. In an extraordinary manner.

    All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.

    With such a skewed probability, the quantum reasoning goes, we have long overlooked the tiny chance that the baseball can (and, on extraordinarily rare occasions, will) land somewhere completely different.