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galactically, adv.
Brit. |gəˈlaktɪkli|, U.S. |gəˈlæktək(ə)li|
[‹ galactic adj. + -ally suffix.]
1. With regard to a galaxy or galaxies; in galactic terms.
1903Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 16 135 These stars, however, were not classified galactically. 1934Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner 7 Feb. 6/6 The universe actually is out of balance, galactically speaking. 1989New German Critique 47 110 If we must think galactically, another way of imagining that audience is to think of black holes, those gigantic masses which..impact gravity and satellize light. 2007N. Angier Canon iii. 86 Inner space, outer space, galactically, atomically, no matter. We live in a universe that is largely devoid of matter.
2. To a vast extent or degree; hugely, immensely.
1969in W. Schneir Telling it like it Was 22 His chances of victory are galactically remote. 1992Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 18 Feb. c1 One of Beethoven's galactically spacious slow movements, which contain almost as much silence as sound. 1995Denver Post 9 Apr. e2/4 The most galactically stupid woman who ever lived. 2002U.S. News & World Rep. 22 July 109/4 ‘Galactically inappropriate’ gaffs—like sending a colleague a ‘strippergram’ on Take Our Daughters to Work Day. |