stratospherically
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a stratospheric manner, or to a stratospheric degree.
adv
By way of or in regard to the stratosphere.
Example Sentences
- "It is no coincidence that when chefs Bocuse and Vergé organised a stratospherically expensive Mediterranean cruise […] they called on the skills of their friend Lenôtre to produce Bocuse's legendary truffle soup."
- "Being forgotten is the fate of most SCP Foundation employees, due only in part to the invisibility of their work. At Site-43, where the community is close-knit, the staffbase relatively humane, and a well-trafficked hallway is set aside for portraits of past local notables, the problem is somewhat attenuated. But memeticists, countermemeticists and antimemeticists face high, very high, and stratospherically high odds, respectively, of being forgotten while they're still around. Amnestic effects have a way of rubbing off on you over time, and there are enough identophagic, obfuscatory or predatorily erasive entities dwelling at the edge of perception that every bit of visual reinforcement helps to underline one's continued existence."
Etymology
Etymology tree English stratospheric Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English stratospherically From stratospheric + -ally.
Inflected Forms
more stratospherically (comparative)
most stratospherically (superlative)