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exceedingly
adverb
ex·ceed·ing·ly
ik-ˈsē-diŋ-lē
variants
or less commonly exceeding
: to an extreme degree : extremely
Synonyms
- achingly
- almighty
- archly
- awful
- awfully
- badly
- beastly
- blisteringly
- bone
- colossally
- corking
- cracking
- damn
- damned
- dang
- deadly
- desperately
- eminently
- enormously
- especially
- ever
- extra
- extremely
- fabulously
- fantastically
- far
- fiercely
- filthy
- frightfully
- full
- greatly
- heavily
- highly
- hugely
- immensely
- incredibly
- intensely
- jolly
- majorly
- mightily
- mighty
- monstrous [chiefly dialect]
- mortally
- most
- much
- particularly
- passing
- rattling
- real
- really
- right
- roaring
- roaringly
- seriously
- severely
- so
- sore
- sorely
- spanking
- specially
- stinking
- such
- super
- supremely
- surpassingly
- terribly
- that
- thumping
- too
- unco
- uncommonly
- vastly
- very
- vitally
- way
- whacking
- wicked
- wildly
Examples of exceedingly in a Sentence
The weather was exceedingly cold.
The crime rate is exceedingly high.
Recent Examples on the Web
Their mission? To make aircraft exceedingly more fuel efficient and help deliver on aviation’s sustainability pledge to be carbon-neutral by 2050.
—Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 24 Mar. 2024
It just gets scrambled up into some form that’s exceedingly hard to read.
—Quanta Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
In the capital, where the breadth of the nation’s history is presumably honored, in a city that in the early 1970s was largely populated by Black people, any depiction of them was exceedingly rare.
—Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
Dead family members figure most prominently, and by contrast, visions involving religious themes are exceedingly rare.
—Phoebe Zerwick, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2024
The Energy and Commerce Committee acted accordingly — in an exceedingly rare 50–0 vote, its members moved immediately to pass the bill out of committee, with Speaker Johnson now set to bring it to the floor for a final vote.
—The Editors, National Review, 12 Mar. 2024
But Kimmel shamed him into doing it anyway, and the exceedingly buff and hairless Cena crab-walked sideways across the stage, his privates seemingly covered only by a large envelope.
—USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2024
Wolverines are exceedingly rare in the lower 48 states and received federal protection under the Endangered Species Act in November.
—Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2024
Thus far, Villeneuve has been exceedingly faithful to his source material (his approach to Dune’s adaption was about finding character and story essentials and cutting out the rest, rather than making significant changes).
—James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1535, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries Near exceedingly
Cite this Entry
“Exceedingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exceedingly. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.
Kids Definition
exceedingly
adverb
ex·ceed·ing·ly
ik-ˈsēd-iŋ-lē
variants
also exceeding
: to a very great degree : extremely
an exceedingly fine job
More from Merriam-Webster on exceedingly
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