blisteringly

adverb

as in extremely
to a great degree a blisteringly harsh review of the new musical

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Recent Examples of blisteringly There are paintings of boats and horses, and a long, no-nonsense bar top with a captain behind it constantly cracking blisteringly cold martini shakers over martini glasses. — Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 22 Oct. 2026 Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have unraveled some of the atmospheric secrets of a bizarre, blisteringly hot world that has the consistency of marshmallow. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 16 Oct. 2026 This is a capable high-performance machine with a great screen, featuring WQXGA resolution and a blisteringly fast 120Hz refresh rate. — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 26 June 2026 Brown has started his campaign with two blisteringly negative ads. — Liz Goodwin The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 25 May 2026 Both players were young, blisteringly quick and supremely talented and scored goals at a rate that exceeded what both Messi and Ronaldo had been capable of at similar ages. — Tom Williams, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2026 Rue’s adventures as a drug mule are both horrifying and blisteringly funny, walking a tightrope that Levinson has always navigated expertly. — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 9 Apr. 2026 Multiple cities in southern Nevada, meanwhile, may climb to 107 by later this week — blisteringly hot conditions for this early in the year. — Denise Chow, NBC news, 16 Mar. 2026 But Kramer was outside the government, with friends dying, blisteringly aware of the ways in which the official instinct toward bureaucracy was dragging out a scientific process that needed to be moving at, to quote a more modern enterprise, warp speed. — Talya Zax, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blisteringly
  1. extremely
  2. incredibly
  3. very
  4. terribly
  5. highly
  6. damn
  7. too
  8. damned
Adverb
  • How Cube Steak Is Used and Cooked Cube steak is extremely versatile.
    — Natalia Vela, Southern Living, 3 Nov. 2026
  • California has gotten extremely soft on accountability with youth.
    — Richard Ramos, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of extremely
Adverb
  • Fortunately for the script, other British and Hessian reënactors had arrived via freeway and the incredibly vast Orchard Beach parking lot.
    — Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Humanity is both incredibly advanced and evolved and deeply stunted.
    — Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN Money, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of incredibly
Adverb
  • The brothers returned to Kansas City’s T-Mobile Center on Tuesday, a little more than a year since their last concert there and on a very big election night for the country.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 4 Nov. 2026
  • On November 2, robot dogs – and other kinds of machines built for locomotion of some kind – took part in the very first World Robot Mount Taishan Climbing Competition in Tai'an, in China's Shandong province.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of very
Adverb
  • After a dance team audition goes terribly wrong, a group of girls at a Catholic high school start experiencing mysterious visions.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 26 Oct. 2026
  • That’s not terribly surprising given the two teams have clashed multiple times over the past 25 years of Xbox.
    — Tom Warren, The Verge, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of terribly
Adverb
  • Elsewhere in the barn, there’s a pair of isolated rooms for donkeys with highly infectious diseases like salmonella or strangles.
    — Brayden Garcia October 28, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Oct. 2026
  • The Buffaloes basically have to win out to make a bowl game, and with games against Houston, Cincinnati, and UCF to end the season, that looks highly unlikely.
    — Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of highly
Adverb
  • Because the rent is so damn high, there was real money to be made.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The play broke the dam for an offense — and particularly a run game — that last year looked pretty damn broken.
    — Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of damn
Adverb
  • Republicans not only lost the House, but watched as their hope of keeping a Senate majority slipped away, too — a blue tsunami that was quickly interpreted as a rebuke of the president and his agenda.
    — David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 4 Nov. 2026
  • As California’s Latino population grew and their political power eventually did too, the days when such a victory would have been an inspiring surprise are long gone.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of too
Adverb
  • The Rolling Stones, down to two original members, have released their 25th studio album, Foreign Tongues, and most of it is pretty damned good.
    — David Harris, SPIN, 6 July 2026
  • But Cleveland State was, in fact, a damned good basketball team, as were most of the double-digit seed winners in NCAA Tournament history.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 18 Mar. 2026
Definition of damned

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