insanely

adverb

in·​sane·​ly (ˌ)in-ˈsān-lē 

1

: in an insane manner : in a way that suggests unsoundness or disorder of mind

They sometimes gabbled insanely. One huge man was asking of the sky: "Say, where de plank road? Where de plank road!" It was as if he had lost a child.

—Stephen Crane

Glancing back, he saw all the carnage, death and misery he had caused in his career. The big rat laughed insanely and ran faster: on and on, past scenes of desolation and destruction …

—Brian Jacques

2

: to a very extreme degree

insanely jealous

insanely happy

insanely rich

The plot is insanely intricate.

—Terrence Rafferty

Justin Bieber … took to Instagram to show off the insanely expensive Audemars Piguet diamond watch he purchased for her as a birthday gift …

—Jane Meeker

Examples of insanely in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Instead of the driver and body man up front wondering about the actual endpoint of a car with an insanely long hood and poor man-machine relationship, VLE and VLS should prove easy to put right on the money, just like with their smaller cousin, the Maybach-Mercedes EQS 680. —Mark Ewing, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025

But the festival will have the same old insanely rich lineup of musical artists to choose from. —Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2025

Also, some of it is going to pay UCLA’s $6 million settlement of a lawsuit brought by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty over anti-Semitism on campus and the university’s insanely hands-off reaction to the takeover of the school grounds by a tent city of pro-Palestinian protesters. —Susan Shelley, Oc Register, 6 Aug. 2025

Now, the community is home to the Michelin starred Boia De, its sister restaurant Walrus Rodeo, the insanely popular Sunny’s Steakhouse and the Macchialina team’s Bar Bucce, among other restaurants. —Connie Ogle july 25, Miami Herald, 25 July 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1683, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for insanely

• humanely
• profanely
• ungainly
• mainly
• plainly
• sanely
• vainly