amazingly
/əˈmeɪzɪŋli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.64 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
To a wonder-inspiring extent.
Example Sentences
- "That violin solo was played amazingly."
- "While at first in the U.S.A. it may have been a matter of high-pressure salesmanship—and it has undoubtely been the irresistible enterprise of the General Motors Corporation, through its Electro-Motive subsidiary, that has set in motion this amazingly rapid transformation of American railway motive power, and has caused all the steam locomotive builders in the U.S.A. to follow suit or be left out in the cold—it seems now beyond dispute that, so far as the U.S.A. is concerned, the economics of the power question can be solved no other way."
- "Amazingly, no one was injured in the crash."
- "Signalman Bridges was killed by the blast, as was fireman Nightall. Amazingly, driver Gimbert came round some 200 yards away, on the grass outside the Station Hotel where he had been flung."
- "The car has amazingly low fuel consumption."
- "The disease AIDS is wiping out a significant portion of the Gay Community and concerns about it are well-justified. But there is another disease that strikes an amazingly high percentage in our community. This disease is Chemical Dependency."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more amazingly (comparative)
most amazingly (superlative)