extraordinarily

English

Etymology

extraordinary + -ly

Adverb

extraordinarily (comparative more extraordinarily, superlative most extraordinarily)

  1. In an extraordinary manner.
    • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 12, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
      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.

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