Extraordinarily Meaning
/ɛˌkstrɔrdəˈnɛrəli/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
advIn an extraordinary manner.
Sentence Examples
He was extraordinarily important in your life.
Tom was extraordinarily handsome.
Tom and Mary have an extraordinarily happy marriage.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The chef’s cake was ____ delicious, earning praise from every guest.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She is ____ talented and has won numerous awards for her beautiful and unique paintings.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree English extraordinary Middle English -ly English -ly English extraordinarily From extraordinary + -ly.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
"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."
— 2005 April 8, Brian Greene, “One Hundred Years of Uncertainty”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2021:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The chef’s cake was ____ delicious, earning praise from every guest.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She is ____ talented and has won numerous awards for her beautiful and unique paintings.