extraordinarily

English

Etymology

From extraordinary +‎ -ly.

Adverb

extraordinarily (comparative more extraordinarily, superlative most extraordinarily)

  1. In an extraordinary manner.
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
      All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.
    • 2005 April 8, Brian Greene, “One Hundred Years of Uncertainty”, in The New York Times‎[1], archived from the original on 9 March 2021:
      With such a skewed probability, the quantum reasoning goes, we have long overlooked the tiny chance that the baseball can (and, on extraordinarily rare occasions, will) land somewhere completely different.

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