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.
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Although norovirus symptoms are exceedingly unpleasant, the virus rarely causes life-threatening symptoms or death.
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Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025
The objects were removed from the site before the start of construction during two years of careful digging and include prehistoric tools and other artifacts made by human hands, as well as exceedingly rare and well-preserved animal and plant remnants.
—Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 16 Jan. 2025
These measures are traditionally limited to conditions linked to single-gene mutations, such as Huntington’s disease, most of which are exceedingly rare and seriously affect a child’s quality of life.
—Kristen V. Brown, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2025
At the time of discovery, the comet was 407 million miles (655 million km) from Earth and shining at an exceedingly faint magnitude of +19.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 9 Jan. 2025
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Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025
The objects were removed from the site before the start of construction during two years of careful digging and include prehistoric tools and other artifacts made by human hands, as well as exceedingly rare and well-preserved animal and plant remnants.
—Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 16 Jan. 2025
These measures are traditionally limited to conditions linked to single-gene mutations, such as Huntington’s disease, most of which are exceedingly rare and seriously affect a child’s quality of life.
—Kristen V. Brown, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2025
At the time of discovery, the comet was 407 million miles (655 million km) from Earth and shining at an exceedingly faint magnitude of +19.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 9 Jan. 2025
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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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