Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gobsmackingly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: gob-s-mack-ing-ly
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

Astonishingly; amazingly.

British usage; Slang

Example Sentences

"1992, Mark Lewisohn, Root Into Europe, BBC Guide to Comedy Astonishingly blunt, completely oblivious to the fact that his opinions and rudeness might be alien or offensive to others, and gobsmackingly ignorant of any other point of view."
"The AAA company Millie’s suing is run by a crooked mogul played by Taika Watiti, doing a gobsmackingly awful caricature of modern tech-bro arrogance."
"“September was, in my professional opinion as a climate scientist, absolutely gobsmackingly bananas,” said Zeke Hausfather, at the Berkeley Earth climate data project."

Etymology

Etymology tree English gobsmacking Middle English -ly English -ly English gobsmackingly From gobsmacking + -ly.

Usage

British usage
Slang

Inflected Forms

more gobsmackingly (comparative) most gobsmackingly (superlative)

Questions

What does gobsmackingly mean?: Astonishingly; amazingly.
Where does gobsmackingly come from?: Etymology tree English gobsmacking Middle English -ly English -ly English gobsmackingly From gobsmacking + -ly.

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