Synonyms of archly

archly

adverb

ˈärch-lē 

as in extremely

to a great degree

an archly competitive young executive

Synonyms & Similar Words

• extremely
• terribly
• very
• highly
• incredibly
• too
• damned
• so
• badly
• damn
• desperately
• intensely
• severely
• wildly
• seriously
• really
• fiercely
• heavily
• jolly
• far
• greatly
• much
• that
• awfully
• most
• particularly
• super
• especially
• frightfully
• exceptionally
• such
• fabulously
• fantastically
• uncommonly
• immensely
• achingly
• full
• supremely
• hugely
• exceedingly
• eminently
• good and
• absolutely
• thoroughly
• utterly
• way
• remarkably
• totally
• mortally
• vitally
• surpassingly
• real
• enormously
• specially
• wicked
• mighty
• deeply
• positively
• extra
• awful
• completely
• vastly
• a lot
• roaringly
• colossally
• entirely
• sore
• deadly
• passing
• beastly
• bone
• sorely
• mightily
• blisteringly
• cracking
• roaring
• wholly
• rattling
• unco
• ever
• whacking
• monstrous
• thumping
• significantly
• majorly
• filthy
• corking
• dang
• almighty
• profoundly
• spanking
• noticeably
• radically
• downright
• considerably
• fully
• visibly
• purely
• substantially
• right
• obviously
• notably
• flat-out
• markedly
• stinking
• plainly
• palpably
• extensively
• as all get-out
• altogether
• excessively
• plentifully
• grandly
• discernibly
• astonishingly
• abundantly
• obscenely
• appreciably
• monumentally
• overmuch
• staggeringly
• astronomically
• amazingly
• monstrously

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• somewhat
• slightly
• little
• nominally
• negligibly
• scarcely
• just
• hardly
• barely
• marginally
• minimally
• meagerly
• scantily

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of archly

The show, which followed a crooked New Mexican lawyer, played by Bob Odenkirk, was an archly funny drama, shot partly in gritty black-and-white. — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025

Much as Wes Anderson and Yorgos Lanthimos have plumbed Dafoe’s deliciously wicked sense of humor in pieces that straddle the line between the real and the archly stylized, Solnicki understands that a strong Dafoe performance must always teeter between the two. — Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 28 Sep. 2025

In other contexts, Cooper and Carlson might have decried such an approach—an archly postmodern attitude in which all facts are relative, all orthodoxies suspect. — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2024

The gentrifying Reagan years that followed gave rise to archly analytic work addressing institutional power. — Nancy Princenthal, New York Times, 16 May 2024