Synonyms
- achingly
- almighty
- archly
- awful
- awfully
- badly
- beastly
- blisteringly
- bone
- colossally
- corking
- cracking
- damn
- damned
- dang
- deadly
- desperately
- eminently
- enormously
- especially
- ever
- exceedingly
- exceeding
- extra
- fabulously
- fantastically
- far
- fiercely
- filthy
- frightfully
- full
- greatly
- heavily
- highly
- hugely
- immensely
- incredibly
- intensely
- jolly
- majorly
- mightily
- mighty
- monstrous [chiefly dialect]
- mortally
- most
- much
- particularly
- passing
- rattling
- real
- really
- right
- roaring
- roaringly
- seriously
- severely
- so
- sore
- sorely
- spanking
- specially
- stinking
- such
- super
- supremely
- surpassingly
- terribly
- that
- thumping
- too
- unco
- uncommonly
- vastly
- very
- vitally
- way
- whacking
- wicked
- wildly
Examples of extremely in a Sentence
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The team, which includes cocky inspector portrayed by Nicholas Tse, soon discovers the corpses of the crew and a huge cache of weapons, including an extremely valuable compass suitable for piloting a submarine.
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Patrick Frater, Variety, 12 Apr. 2024
But their hope is that someday, technology like this will help humans survive extremely premature birth and avoid serious complications, such as blindness and permanent damage to lungs and brains.
—Rob Stein, NPR, 12 Apr. 2024
Many Ukrainians have an extremely detailed grasp of U.S. election-year politics, and any visiting American is asked again and again: When is more help coming?
—Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
Their existence also seems extremely fragile: just one false step into a steel-jawed trap could wipe their tribe out forever.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 12 Apr. 2024
In both soils the seed germination was extremely poor—the plants either did not sprout or died shortly after.
—Rachel Ahrnsen, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Apr. 2024
Exacerbating the situation are the extremely tight schedules ships’ crews face to unload outgoing cargo and pickup inbound cargo before racing to the next port.
—USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
Some areas are extremely dry, while others have the wettest climate in the U.S.
At the university campus where CBS News spoke with Giambelluca, the average yearly rainfall is about 60 inches a year, while nearby Waikiki, two miles away, gets 20 inches.
—Li Cohen, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2024
The rooms themselves are also extremely welcoming and abandon any cookie-cutter comparison; each one is decorated with bespoke furniture and unique artwork.
—Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2024
Patrick Frater, Variety, 12 Apr. 2024
But their hope is that someday, technology like this will help humans survive extremely premature birth and avoid serious complications, such as blindness and permanent damage to lungs and brains.
—Rob Stein, NPR, 12 Apr. 2024
Many Ukrainians have an extremely detailed grasp of U.S. election-year politics, and any visiting American is asked again and again: When is more help coming?
—Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
Their existence also seems extremely fragile: just one false step into a steel-jawed trap could wipe their tribe out forever.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 12 Apr. 2024
In both soils the seed germination was extremely poor—the plants either did not sprout or died shortly after.
—Rachel Ahrnsen, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Apr. 2024
Exacerbating the situation are the extremely tight schedules ships’ crews face to unload outgoing cargo and pickup inbound cargo before racing to the next port.
—USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
Some areas are extremely dry, while others have the wettest climate in the U.S.
At the university campus where CBS News spoke with Giambelluca, the average yearly rainfall is about 60 inches a year, while nearby Waikiki, two miles away, gets 20 inches.
—Li Cohen, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2024
The rooms themselves are also extremely welcoming and abandon any cookie-cutter comparison; each one is decorated with bespoke furniture and unique artwork.
—Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1509, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Extremely.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extremely. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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