extraordinarily

English

Etymology

extraordinary + -ly

Adverb

extraordinarily (comparative more extraordinarily, superlative most extraordinarily)

  1. In an extraordinary manner.
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
      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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