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shockingly

shockingly adverb: in a shocking manner.

Adverb

shockingly (comparative more shockingly, superlative most shockingly)

  1. In a shocking manner.
    • He had thinned shockingly, losing 100 pounds in the last month of his illness.
  2. To a shocking degree.
    • Their efforts were shockingly slipshod.
    • He’s forced to travel back to 1969 to prevent an evil alien (a shockingly effective, nearly unrecognizable Jemaine Clement of Flight Of The Conchords, playing sort of a psychotic extraterrestrial-biker serial killer) from destroying the world by killing Brolin. Smith is aided in his quest by an...2012 May 24, Nathan Rabin, “Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, in The Onion AV Club

shockingly meaning in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Gujarati

shockingly in Tamil

அதிர்ச்சியூட்டும் வகையில், அதிர்ச்சியளிக்கும் வகையில்

shockingly in Telugu

దిగ్భ్రాంతికరంగా

shockingly in Kannada

ಆಘಾತಕಾರಿಯಾಗಿ

shockingly in Gujarati

આઘાતજનક રીતે

Examples of shockingly in a sentence

  • He was probably around 5 meters tall! But real talk, he was shockingly tall.
  • The in-hospital mortality rate for the group was shockingly high.
  • It was oval, and shockingly red with ruby colored carpeting meeting walls of glistening claret.

All 23 example sentences with shockingly

Forms of shockingly

comparativemore shockingly
superlativemost shockingly

Origin of shockingly

From shocking + -ly.

Questions about shockingly

What does shockingly mean?
Shockingly means in a shocking manner.
What is shockingly in Tamil?
Shockingly in Tamil is அதிர்ச்சியூட்டும் வகையில், அதிர்ச்சியளிக்கும் வகையில். See Shockingly meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is shockingly?
Shockingly is an adverb.

Words near shockingly in the dictionary

  1. shocking and aweing
  2. shocking and awing
  3. shocking pink
  4. shocking pinks
  5. shockingest
  6. shockingly
  7. shockingness
  8. shockings
  9. Shocklach Oviatt and District
  10. shockless
  11. shocklessness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shockingly (page history and authors); shockingly (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shockingly (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shockingly (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shockingly (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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