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
an extremely hot day
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Unlike in 2017, Trump is equipped with radically transgressive and politically unpopular goals—practically all of his signature policy proposals poll extremely poorly.
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Jon D. Michaels, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
Severe thunderstorms have been extremely destructive, with hail wreaking havoc across the central US.
—Ella Nilsen, CNN, 10 June 2024
With multiple major railroad companies at threat of a industry-wide strike, the stakes for an agreement were extremely high; $2 billion could’ve been lost every day of a strike.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 8 June 2024
Love & Hip Hop Atlanta's Sierra Gates is opening up about a tattoo experience that caused an extremely painful infection.
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Jon D. Michaels, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
Severe thunderstorms have been extremely destructive, with hail wreaking havoc across the central US.
—Ella Nilsen, CNN, 10 June 2024
With multiple major railroad companies at threat of a industry-wide strike, the stakes for an agreement were extremely high; $2 billion could’ve been lost every day of a strike.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 8 June 2024
Love & Hip Hop Atlanta's Sierra Gates is opening up about a tattoo experience that caused an extremely painful infection.
—Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 8 June 2024
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“Extremely.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extremely. Accessed 16 Jun. 2024.
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