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incredibly

/ɪnˈkrɛdɪbli/
/ɪnˈkrɛdɪbli/
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You can use the adverb incredibly to mean "extremely," like your best friend's incredibly disturbing Halloween costume.

The word incredibly describes anything that is so fantastic, you almost doubt it's real. You might describe an incredibly fast runner or your incredibly strange French teacher. Incredibly can also describe amazement, like incredibly, someone returned your missing wallet, with everything still in it. The Latin root is incredibilis, "that cannot be believed."

Definitions of incredibly
  1. adverb
    exceedingly; extremely
  2. adverb
    not easy to believe
    “behind you the coastal hills plunge to the incredibly blue sea backed by the Turkish mountains”
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    antonyms:
    credibly
    easy to believe on the basis of available evidence
Pronunciation
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/ɪnˈkrɛdɪbli/
UK
/ɪnˈkrɛdɪbli/
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