amazinglyadv.
/əˈmeɪzɪŋli/, U.S. /əˈmeɪzɪŋli/ 1. In an amazing manner; so as to cause astonishment, or wonder, or great surprise. In later use also in a weakened sense: remarkably, exceedingly.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [adverb]
wonderlyc897
sellya1000
wonderc1175
wonderfullya1300
marvellouslya1382
marvellousa1400
marvelly?a1400
wonderful14..
wonderslyc1489
to marvelc1500
wondersc1528
wondrously1535
prodigiously1541
wondrous1557
admirably1570
admiredly1598
to a miracle?1614
marls1615
amazingly1650
miridically1652
mirificously1657
surprisingly1661
to wonder1661
astonishingly1668
prodigious1694
strikingly1752
amazing1760
à merveille1762
astoundingly1826
mirifically1873
breathtakingly1887
eye-poppingly1959
mind-bogglingly1973
staggeringly1976
mind-blowingly1977
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
1650 W. Beech Alarum to London 10 The Moon..is..there amazingly made to behold and gaze upon the rare and unheard of execusions of the Great Jehovah.
1744 H. Walpole Let. 1 Mar. in Lett. to H. Mann (1833) I. 353 My father has exerted himself most amazingly.
1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 178 The thigh bones of some amazingly large animal.
1857 C. Dickens Little Dorrit i. vi. 44 The doctor was amazingly shabby, in a torn and darned rough-weather sea-jacket.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 16 Mar. 3/1 Some amazingly good imitations of Irish lace..being but a few shillings per yard.
1931 Movie Makers Feb. 97/1 (advt.) Panchromatic Film gives you a black and white reproduction that's amazingly beautiful.
1965 Internat. Migration Digest 2 194 The Polynesians built amazingly seaworthy craft.
2013 Daily Tel. 7 June 34 The Cape Verde Islands are..an amazingly varied group of islands.
2. As a sentence adverb: very surprisingly; in a way that causes astonishment or great surprise.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > [adverb]
unmindlingOE
unsupposedc1425
unweeninglyc1480
ex improviso1521
unprovidedly1539
unexpectedly1605
unhopedly1611
unimagined1614
inexpectedly1626
startlinglya1645
surprisingly1667
unhoped1667
astonishingly1668
staggeringlya1682
shockingly1741
outrageously1749
funnily1837
shockingly1883
amazingly1928
1928 N. Amer. Rev. Aug. 129 More directly but no less amazingly, a tropical hurricane..lifted also a shameful stigma from the island's slow and pallid workers.
1946 Sat. Evening Post 7 Sept. 93/3 His gray eyes glanced at Paul before he answered, and amazingly she saw a twinkle there.
1988 J. McInerney Story of my Life v. 89 I freak out when I feel on my lapel for the sapphire brooch and it's not there, but amazingly it turns up under the table.
2007 S. Martin No Way Home (2008) iv. 34 Even more amazingly, no one, including Warren, made even the slightest mention of it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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