1
: in an aching manner
achingly sad songs
2
: extremely, exceedingly
achingly complicated
Synonyms
- almighty
- archly
- awful
- awfully
- badly
- beastly
- blisteringly
- bone
- colossally
- corking
- cracking
- damn
- damned
- dang
- deadly
- desperately
- eminently
- enormously
- especially
- ever
- exceedingly
- exceeding
- extra
- extremely
- 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 achingly in a Sentence
an achingly funny movie
Recent Examples on the Web
Located in the achingly hip Shoreditch in inner east London, where the city’s financial powerhouses sit cheek by jowl with trendy restaurants, brands and hotels, Boxpark opened at Bishopsgate Goodsyard back in 2011 as a pop-up mall on a five-year lease.
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Mark Faithfull, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
For the better part of its previous seasons, Emily in Paris has centered on the messy love triangle between Emily (Lily Collins) and her friends, achingly cool French couple Gabriel (Lucas Bravo) and Camille (Camille Razat).
—Cady Lang, TIME, 15 Aug. 2024
The candidate is seen only in official images or written about in the third person, and the appeal is explained in achingly clumsy online memes; every now and then a clip surfaces of excerpts from a ...
—Jeffrey Blehar, National Review, 30 July 2024
Hathaway and Chastain are both acutely attuned to the film’s pitch-black humor and Hitchcockian melodrama, and achingly convey their characters’ desperation and resentment.
—Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 29 July 2024
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Mark Faithfull, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
For the better part of its previous seasons, Emily in Paris has centered on the messy love triangle between Emily (Lily Collins) and her friends, achingly cool French couple Gabriel (Lucas Bravo) and Camille (Camille Razat).
—Cady Lang, TIME, 15 Aug. 2024
The candidate is seen only in official images or written about in the third person, and the appeal is explained in achingly clumsy online memes; every now and then a clip surfaces of excerpts from a ...
—Jeffrey Blehar, National Review, 30 July 2024
Hathaway and Chastain are both acutely attuned to the film’s pitch-black humor and Hitchcockian melodrama, and achingly convey their characters’ desperation and resentment.
—Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 29 July 2024
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“Achingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/achingly. Accessed 9 Sep. 2024.
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