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inordinately

inordinately adverb: in an inordinate manner.

Adverb

inordinately (comparative more inordinately, superlative most inordinately)

  1. In an inordinate manner.
    • 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...1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species
    • And then she giggles, inordinately pleased by her own cleverness.2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 173

inordinately meaning in Urdu

inordinately in Urdu

بےلگامی سے

Examples of inordinately in a sentence

  • “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 Guardian:
  • They’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:

Forms of inordinately

comparativemore inordinately
superlativemost inordinately

Origin of inordinately

From inordinate + -ly.

Questions about inordinately

What does inordinately mean?
Inordinately means in an inordinate manner.
What is inordinately in Urdu?
Inordinately in Urdu is بےلگامی سے. See Inordinately meaning in Urdu.
How do you use inordinately in a sentence?
“Misinformation, toxicity and violent content are inordinately prevalent among reshares,” said internal research.
What part of speech is inordinately?
Inordinately is an adverb.

Words near inordinately in the dictionary

  1. inorbs
  2. inorder
  3. inordinacies
  4. inordinacy
  5. inordinate
  6. inordinately
  7. inordinateness
  8. inordination
  9. inordinations
  10. inorg
  11. inorganic

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