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Incredibly Moderate

Incredibly has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Adverb

Definitions
Adverb
1

not easy to believe

"incredibly, she survived the crash"

2

exceedingly; extremely

"she plays fabulously well"

"behind you the coastal hills plunge to the incredibly blue sea backed by the Turkish mountains"

3

In an incredible manner; not to be believed.

"The magician performed tricks so incredibly that even his own assistants refused to believe what they had just witnessed."

In plain English: Incredibly means something is so amazing that it's hard to believe.

"The weather was incredibly hot yesterday, so we stayed inside all day."

Usage: Use incredibly as an intensifier before adjectives or other adverbs, such as in the phrase "incredibly fast," rather than directly modifying nouns like "an incredibly story." It functions similarly to extremely but often carries a slightly stronger sense of astonishment when describing surprising facts.

Example Sentences
"The weather was incredibly hot yesterday, so we stayed inside all day." adv
"The weather turned incredibly hot by mid-afternoon." adv
"She found the new movie incredibly moving and tear-jerking." adv
"It was incredibly difficult to find parking in that busy city center." adv
Related Terms
Antonyms
believably

Origin

The word incredibly comes from combining the adjective incredible with the suffix -ly to form an adverb. It entered English by adding a standard grammatical ending to describe something that cannot be believed.

Rhyming Words
bly ably nobly sably garbly nimbly glibly usably wambly pebbly gobbly feebly unably cobbly fambly wombly nubbly jumbly hobbly mumbly
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