incredibly

CEFRB1

/ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/

adverb

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Examples

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

Used to note the surprising or hard-to-believe nature of what is being said and suggest that it is nevertheless true.
In an incredible manner; not to be believed.

In context

Technology is advancing at an incredibly rapid pace.
Incredibly, when he died they found he had left a million dollars to the Poetry Foundation.
He was incredibly wealthy.

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With the parental exaggeration which the birth of his various enterprises always induced, O'Sullivan spoke incredibly of eighty-five "enrolled" members.
1965, Bruce Mansfield, Australian Democrat: The Career of Edward William O'Sullivan, 1846-1910
“The AN-TPY/2 radar is essentially the heart of the THAAD battery, enabling the launch of interceptor missiles and contributing to a networked air defense picture,” he said. “It also happens to be an incredibly expensive piece of kit. The loss of even a single radar of this type would be an operationally significant event. It is probable that a replacement unit would have to be redeployed from elsewhere, which will take time and effort.”
2026 March 5, Thomas Bordeaux, Gianluca Mezzofiore, “Radar bases housing key US missile interceptor hit in Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and UAE, satellite images show”, in CNN, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2026

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From incredible + -ly.