exceedingly

adverb

ex·​ceed·​ing·​ly ik-ˈsē-diŋ-lē 

variants or less commonly exceeding

ik-ˈsē-diŋ 

: to an extreme degree : extremely

Synonyms

• achingly
• almighty
• archly
• awful
• awfully
• badly
• beastly
• blisteringly
• bone
• colossally
• corking
• cracking
• damn
• damned
• dang
• deadly
• desperately
• eminently
• enormously
• especially
• ever
• 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 exceedingly in a Sentence

The weather was exceedingly cold.

The crime rate is exceedingly high.

Recent Examples on the Web

Raids at newsrooms are exceedingly rare in America. —Katie Moore, Kansas City Star, 3 Apr. 2024

The watch was limited to just 99 examples, rendering this lot exceedingly rare. —Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 2 Apr. 2024

An exceedingly rare total eclipse of the sun was only two days away, and a team of scientists had arrived in Fort Worth from thousands of miles away to use the most modern equipment of the day to observe it. —Matt Leclercq, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Apr. 2024

While lunar eclipses themselves aren't exceedingly rare, the specific conditions required for the moon to appear blood-red make this phenomenon relatively unusual. —The Arizona Republic, 1 Apr. 2024

The disease has also spread to other species in the past, including seals and sea lions, but infections in humans are exceedingly rare. —Dylan Sloan, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2024

Even when debunked, fabrications like these have proved exceedingly difficult to extinguish entirely. —Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024

Even if laws are enacted, policing them will be exceedingly difficult. —Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2024

Easy songs can be learned quickly, but harder pieces become exceedingly difficult. —Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1535, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

exceedingly

adverb

ex·​ceed·​ing·​ly ik-ˈsēd-iŋ-lē 

variants also exceeding

: to a very great degree : extremely

an exceedingly fine job