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gobsmackingly

gobsmackingly adverb: astonishingly; amazingly.

Adverb

gobsmackingly (comparative more gobsmackingly, superlative most gobsmackingly)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang) Astonishingly; amazingly.
    • Astonishingly blunt, completely oblivious to the fact that his opinions and rudeness might be alien or offensive to others, and gobsmackingly ignorant of any other point of view.1992, Mark Lewisohn, Root Into Europe, BBC Guide to Comedy
    • The AAA company Millie’s suing is run by a crooked mogul played by Taika Watiti, doing a gobsmackingly awful caricature of modern tech-bro arrogance.2021 August 6, A. A. Dowd, “The Ryan Reynolds action-comedy Free Guy is a Truman Show for the Fortnite age”, in The A.V. Club

gobsmackingly meaning in Bengali

gobsmackingly in Bengali

বিস্ময়কর ভাবে, অদ্ভুত ভাবে

Forms of gobsmackingly

comparativemore gobsmackingly
superlativemost gobsmackingly

Origin of gobsmackingly

From gobsmacking + -ly.

Questions about gobsmackingly

What does gobsmackingly mean?
Gobsmackingly means astonishingly; amazingly.
What is gobsmackingly in Bengali?
Gobsmackingly in Bengali is বিস্ময়কর ভাবে, অদ্ভুত ভাবে. See Gobsmackingly meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is gobsmackingly?
Gobsmackingly is an adverb.

Words near gobsmackingly in the dictionary

  1. gobsmack
  2. gobsmacked
  3. gobsmacker
  4. gobsmackers
  5. gobsmacking
  6. gobsmackingly
  7. gobsmacks
  8. gobstick
  9. gobsticks
  10. gobstopper
  11. gobstopper tree

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gobsmackingly (page history and authors); gobsmackingly (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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