Meanings
comparative more inordinately · superlative most inordinately
- In an inordinate manner.
And then she giggles, inordinately pleased by her own cleverness.
2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 1733 more examples
Every being, which during its natural lifetime produces several eggs or seeds, must suffer destruction during some period of its life, and during some season or occasional year, otherwise, on the principle of geometrical increase, its numbers would quickly become so inordinately great that no country could support the product.
1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of SpeciesThe emphasis on boosting “meaningful social interactions” between friends and family meant that the feed leant towards reshared material, which was often misinformed and toxic. “Misinformation, toxicity and violent content are inordinately prevalent among reshares,” said internal research.
2021 October 25, Dan Milmo, “Facebook revelations: what is in cache of internal documents?”, in The GuardianThey’d [nucelar reactors] become inordinately expensive to build and maintain, in any case, especially compared to solar and wind installations.
2022 December 15, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbto a surprising degree
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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