Meanings
comparative more extraordinarily · superlative most extraordinarily
- In an extraordinary manner.
With such a skewed probability, the quantum reasoning goes, we have long overlooked the tiny chance that the baseball can (and, on extraordinarily rare occasions, will) land somewhere completely different.
2005 April 8, Brian Greene, “One Hundred Years of Uncertainty”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Mar 20211 more example
All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbto a surprising degree
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Catalan extraordinàriament
- extraordinàriamentin an extraordinary manner
Czech mimořádně
- mimořádněin an extraordinary manner
Dutch uitzonderlijk
- uitzonderlijkin an extraordinary manner
Esperanto eksterordinare
- eksterordinarein an extraordinary manner
Finnish erinomaisesti, erikoisesti
- erinomaisestiin an extraordinary manner
- erikoisestiin an extraordinary manner
- kummallisestiin an extraordinary manner
French extraordinairement
- extraordinairementin an extraordinary manner
German außerordentlich
- außerordentlichin an extraordinary manner
Greek εξαιρετικά, εξαιρέτως
- εξαιρετικά (exairetiká)in an extraordinary manner
- εξαιρέτως (exairétos)in an extraordinary manner
- φαινομενικά (fainomeniká)in an extraordinary manner
Hungarian rendkívül
- rendkívülin an extraordinary manner
Italian straordinariamente
- straordinariamentein an extraordinary manner
Latvian neparasti
- neparastiin an extraordinary manner
Lithuanian nepaprastai, išimtinai
- nepaprastaiin an extraordinary manner
- išimtinaiin an extraordinary manner
- ypatingaiin an extraordinary manner
Polish nadzwyczajnie
- nadzwyczajniein an extraordinary manner
Portuguese extraordinariamente
- extraordinariamentein an extraordinary manner
Spanish extraordinariamente
- extraordinariamentein an extraordinary manner
Ukrainian надзвича́йно
- надзвича́йно (nadzvyčájno)in an extraordinary manner
Cite this entry
extraordinarily. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extraordinarily
“extraordinarily.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extraordinarily. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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