Synonyms
- achingly
- almighty
- archly
- awful
- awfully
- badly
- beastly
- blisteringly
- bone
- colossally
- corking
- cracking
- damn
- damned
- dang
- deadly
- desperately
- eminently
- enormously
- especially
- ever
- exceedingly
- exceeding
- extra
- 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 extremely in a Sentence
an extremely hot day
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Read more: Climate Change Increases Home Runs Climate Central tracks not just average rising temperatures, but extremely hot days, which are defined as days on which the thermometer hits or exceeds 91°F.
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Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 7 Feb. 2025
Her father picks it up for him, but is disappointed to see what appears to be a condom imprint, making for an extremely awkward moment in front of the family.
—Angel Saunders, People.com, 7 Feb. 2025
The whole sequence was shot in the forest with John Turturro on a day that just happened to be extremely foggy.
—Jen Chaney, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2025
Unfortunately, that process is labor-intensive and extremely unpleasant, and a number of the people infected caught the virus while culling chickens.
—Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2025
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Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 7 Feb. 2025
Her father picks it up for him, but is disappointed to see what appears to be a condom imprint, making for an extremely awkward moment in front of the family.
—Angel Saunders, People.com, 7 Feb. 2025
The whole sequence was shot in the forest with John Turturro on a day that just happened to be extremely foggy.
—Jen Chaney, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2025
Unfortunately, that process is labor-intensive and extremely unpleasant, and a number of the people infected caught the virus while culling chickens.
—Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2025
See all Example Sentences for extremely
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“Extremely.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extremely. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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