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especially
Synonyms and Antonyms of especially
1
in the specific case of one person or thing as distinguished from others
in especial, in particular
2
to a great degree
achingly, almighty, archly, awful, awfully, badly, beastly, blisteringly, bone, colossally, corking, cracking, damn, damned, dang, deadly, desperately, eminently, enormously, ever, exceedingly (also exceeding), 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
absolutely, altogether, completely, downright, entirely, flat-out, fully, positively, purely, radically, thoroughly, totally, utterly, wholly
exceptionally, notably, remarkably
considerably, extensively, significantly, substantially
appreciably, discernibly, markedly, noticeably, obviously, palpably, plainly, visibly
astronomically, grandly, monstrously, monumentally
a lot, as all get-out, good and
3
in regard to something mentioned explicitly or in detail
in particular
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