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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Early reaction to this news among US free-market and civil-liberties advocates seems exceedingly unamused.
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This approach is exceedingly rare in his region of Northeast Indiana, most would find it in LA or New York.
—Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2025
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Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 7 Feb. 2025
And late-night television is exceedingly qualified to address at least three out of four (climate collapse is tough, but Jimmy Kimmel sending two LAFD firefighters to the Super Bowl comes close).
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2025
Bank of America’s Mariana Perez Mora was exceedingly bullish ahead of Palantir’s results in a Monday note.
—Brian Evans, CNBC, 3 Feb. 2025
This approach is exceedingly rare in his region of Northeast Indiana, most would find it in LA or New York.
—Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 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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