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incredibly

You can use the adverb incredibly to mean "extremely," like your best friend's incredibly disturbing Halloween costume.

The word incredibly describes anything that is so fantastic, you almost doubt it's real. You might describe an incredibly fast runner or your incredibly strange French teacher. Incredibly can also describe amazement, like incredibly, someone returned your missing wallet, with everything still in it. The Latin root is incredibilis, "that cannot be believed."

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: incredibly

1
adv
exceedingly; extremely
2
adv
not easy to believe
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: incredibly
1

adv exceedingly; extremely

2

adv not easy to believe

“behind you the coastal hills plunge to the incredibly blue sea backed by the Turkish mountains”
Synonyms:
implausibly, improbably, unbelievably
Antonyms:
believably
in a believable manner
believably, credibly, plausibly, probably
easy to believe on the basis of available evidence
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