exceedingly
adverb
ex·ceed·ing·ly
ik-ˈsē-diŋ-lē 
variants
or less commonly exceeding
: to an extreme degree : extremely
Synonyms
- achingly
- almighty
- archly
- awful
- awfully
- badly
- beastly
- blisteringly
- bone
- colossally
- corking
- cracking
- damn
- damned
- dang
- deadly
- desperately
- eminently
- enormously
- especially
- ever
- 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
Examples of exceedingly in a Sentence
The weather was exceedingly cold.
The crime rate is exceedingly high.
Recent Examples on the Web
Even with support, the burden of traveling for care is exceedingly difficult or even impossible to overcome for some families.
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Emma Chinn, Them, 9 Oct. 2024
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—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2024
One sender after the next fails to meet an exceedingly low threshold for engaging a physics titan.
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The plaintiff must prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the person who set up the trust did so with the intent to defraud the plaintiff, which is exceedingly difficult.
—Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2024
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Emma Chinn, Them, 9 Oct. 2024
It was supposed to be decentralized and anti-authoritarian, but a tiny cabal of mining pools came to dominate network activity, and access to the cryptocurrency more or less depends on exchanges that have proved exceedingly vulnerable to both fraud and regulation.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2024
One sender after the next fails to meet an exceedingly low threshold for engaging a physics titan.
—Andréa Morris, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
The plaintiff must prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the person who set up the trust did so with the intent to defraud the plaintiff, which is exceedingly difficult.
—Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2024
See all Example Sentences for exceedingly
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exceedingly
adverb
ex·ceed·ing·ly
ik-ˈsēd-iŋ-lē
variants
also exceeding
: to a very great degree : extremely
an exceedingly fine job
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