devastatinglyadv.

Brit.

/ˈdɛvəsteɪtɪŋli/, U.S.

/ˈdɛvəˌsteɪdɪŋli/

Etymology: < devastating adj. + -ly suffix².

In a devastating manner; so as to devastate: frequently in trivial or hyperbolical use (cf. devastating adj.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly > amazingly or wonderfully

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1905 Daily Chron. 28 Sept. 4/6 The devastatingly tidy housemaid.

1915 J. C. Powys Visions & Revisions 96 The stripping from human beings of their characteristic ‘outer garments’ makes them so dreadfully, so devastatingly, alike!

1927 Observer 15 May 8 A man in whom a natural violence of lust and temper is restrained by the unnaturally strict taboos of his childhood's environment, but breaks loose all the more devastatingly when his inhibitions are removed by drink.

1927 Observer 21 Aug. 5 The devastatingly betraying sentences of Theodore Parker.

1928 Daily Tel. 15 May 8 His conversation..is positive, narrow-minded, egregiously self-satisfied, impregnably commercial, but it is devastatingly entertaining.

1966 Listener 20 Oct. 578/3 The final sequence..is devastatingly lovely in its sadness.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	devastatingly
释义	devastatinglyadv. Brit. /ˈdɛvəsteɪtɪŋli/, U.S. /ˈdɛvəˌsteɪdɪŋli/ Etymology: < devastating adj. + -ly suffix². In a devastating manner; so as to devastate: frequently in trivial or hyperbolical use (cf. devastating adj.). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly > amazingly or wonderfully wonderlyc1000 wonderc1175 wonderfullya1300 marvellouslya1382 marvellousa1400 marvelly?a1400 wonderful14.. miraculouslya1425 wonderslyc1489 wondersc1528 wondrously1535 prodigiously1541 wondrous1557 stupendly1621 stupendiously1629 amazingly1650 stupendously1659 astonishingly1668 tremendously1684 prodigious1694 portentously1755 miraculous1766 awesomely1821 stunningly1823 fabulously1845 devastatingly1905 fantastically1923 dizzyingly1952 staggeringly1976 1905 Daily Chron. 28 Sept. 4/6 The devastatingly tidy housemaid. 1915 J. C. Powys Visions & Revisions 96 The stripping from human beings of their characteristic ‘outer garments’ makes them so dreadfully, so devastatingly, alike! 1927 Observer 15 May 8 A man in whom a natural violence of lust and temper is restrained by the unnaturally strict taboos of his childhood's environment, but breaks loose all the more devastatingly when his inhibitions are removed by drink. 1927 Observer 21 Aug. 5 The devastatingly betraying sentences of Theodore Parker. 1928 Daily Tel. 15 May 8 His conversation..is positive, narrow-minded, egregiously self-satisfied, impregnably commercial, but it is devastatingly entertaining. 1966 Listener 20 Oct. 578/3 The final sequence..is devastatingly lovely in its sadness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1905
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