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EXTRAORDINARILY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extremely
Example:
it will be an extraordinarily painful step to negotiate
Synonyms:
extraordinarily; inordinately
Classified under:
Pertainym:
extraordinary (far more than usual or expected)
Context examples:
I found Uriah in possession of a new, plaster-smelling office, built out in the garden; looking extraordinarily mean, in the midst of a quantity of books and papers.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
She has the most agreeable of faces,—not absolutely beautiful, but extraordinarily pleasant,—and is one of the most genial, unaffected, frank, engaging creatures I have ever seen.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
She looked so extraordinarily earnest and pretty, that I stopped in a sort of wonder; and they all observed her at the same time, for as I stopped, they laughed and looked at her.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I took the liberty of representing that we had been patient for a good many years; and that the circumstance of Sophy's being extraordinarily useful at home, ought not to operate with her affectionate parents, against her establishment in life—don't you see?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He did extraordinarily well in the war.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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