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fabulously

adverb

Definition of fabulouslynext
as in extremely
to a great degree our fabulously wealthy neighbors

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Recent Examples of fabulously Fertile lands afforded the capacity to grow export crops that supported farmers and made plantation owners fabulously wealthy. — Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026 Tahnoon isn’t merely some fabulously rich dude who woke up one morning with a taste for bottle service. — Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2026 One colorful customer spouts a fabulously ripe monologue about how the aliens nearly caught him mid-defecation—a close encounter of the turd kind. — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2026 Catton’s ecological collective occupies unused land to grow food, but then encounters a fabulously wealthy man with his own plans for the landscape. — Solitaire Townsend, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026 Before any of our fabulously talented Test Kitchen editors even pick up a knife or whisk, every concept is considered and debated by multiple Bon Appétit staff members. — Chris Morocco, Bon Appetit Magazine, 13 Aug. 2026 The result is fabulously decadent and the perfect recipe for using up oodles and oodles of summer squash. — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 7 Aug. 2026 The spa With everything else being so fabulously perfect, the spa was the only element that didn’t exceed my (by now) sky-high expectations. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 July 2026 For others, the salary cap proposal demonstrates pure greed from owners who are all fabulously wealthy yet perennially crying poor. — David Faris, TheWeek, 15 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fabulously
  1. extremely
  2. incredibly
  3. very
  4. terribly
  5. highly
  6. too
  7. damned
  8. badly
Adverb
  • The romance genre is extremely popular on the publishing side with massive engaged fan bases, and buyers on the film and TV side recognize the potential for that to translate to the screen.
    — Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Earthquakes and bradyseisms are very rare; the continents move extremely slowly.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of extremely
Adverb
  • Moments after an incredibly warm greeting, Quinn shoveled coal into the flames and stuck an iron in the forge.
    — Sarah Wood González, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Teach them that an answer can sound incredibly confident and still be wrong.
    — Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of incredibly
Adverb
  • Those who arrived in the 1900s had very different cultural, political, and religious backgrounds from the older Texas Jews.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026
  • These salts can withstand very high temperatures before boiling.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of very
Adverb
  • Fortunately, if no less terribly, there is more to the story, and many of the most compelling scenes have little or nothing to do with Michael.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2026
  • This is not at all to suggest Tove Lo has become terribly sensible, though.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of terribly
Adverb
  • This requires that software developers understand how to prompt AI with relevant and highly honed questions, validate outputs, understand the limitations of AI models and maintain accountability for the final product.
    — Alberto Lugo, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Programming will be highly curated and editorially led, organizers added, spanning headline conversations, unexpected pairings, global trends and data, cultural insight and case studies from across the international entertainment business.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of highly
Adverb
  • Other analyses suggest about 40 percent of amateur athletes playing contact sports show brain changes that are characteristic of CTE, too.
    — Alexandra Pattillo, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Instead of calling for calm and letting the justice system work, too many political leaders on the left and progressive social influencers either fanned the flames of unrest or failed to act until enormous damage was done.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 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
Adverb
  • The Commanders badly need good news on the Daniels front because panic is this close to setting in.
    — Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2026
  • The planters are original to the stadium’s 1962 construction, and many had crumbled badly enough over the decades to need painstaking repair.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of badly

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