extremely

adverb

ex·​treme·​ly ik-ˈstrēm-lē 

1

: in an extreme manner

2

: to an extreme extent

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

Recent Examples on the Web

No league in the United States is more popular than the National Football League, making the schedule release an extremely exciting day for the sports world. —Kilty Cleary, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025

The economic sanctions cut off Syria from the global financial system and has made economic recovery extremely challenging after 14 years of grinding war. —Joey Garrison, USA Today, 14 May 2025

Chicago was also extremely active in free agency, adding guards Joe Thuney and Jonah Jackson, and center Drew Dalman to an offensive line that allowed 68 sacks a year ago. —Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025

Tickets for all shows were in extremely hot demand, leading to a controversy around dynamic pricing and Ticketmaster canceling legitimate purchases thinking they were made by bots. —Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1509, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Phrases Containing extremely

• extremely high frequency
• extremely low frequency

Rhymes for extremely

• seemly
• unseemly