incrediblyadverb
uk/ɪnˈkred.ə.bli/us/ɪnˈkred.ə.bli/incredibly adverb (DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE)
C1 used for saying that something is very difficult to believe:
Incredibly, no one was hurt in the accident.
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- We missed our flight but, incredibly, got there on time.
- His car turned over and caught on fire and yet, incredibly, he escaped unscathed.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Not believable
- belief
- by no stretch (of the imagination) idiom
- fanciful
- far-fetched
- fishy
- hard
- hear
- incredible
- joke
- likely
- miraculous
- pass
- pass (all) belief idiom
- smell fishy idiom
- unbelievably
- unconvincing
- unthinkable
- unthinkable
- untrustworthiness
- wash
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incredibly adverb (EXTREMELY)
B2 extremely:
He was incredibly rich/angry/quick.
An incredibly loud bang followed the flash.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Linguistics: very & extreme
- abject
- awful
- badly
- beyond
- classic
- classical
- devastating
- drop dead! idiom
- eminently
- esp
- especially
- heartily
- impossibly
- perfect
- sheer
- specially
- supremely
- thoroughly
- whole
- wide
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