spectacularly
spectacularly adverb: in a spectacular manner, extraordinarily, amazingly.
Adverb
spectacularly (comparative more spectacularly, superlative most spectacularly)
- In a spectacular manner, extraordinarily, amazingly.
- This argument turns out to be spectacularly mistaken. When fiction works, the individual and the universal are frictionlessly combined.1992 August 30, Martin Amis, “What He Learned in Bed”, in The New York Times
- Obsessed only with cost, 'Sir Humphrey' saw that Transport for London 'got away' with ticket office closures on the Tube with only minor public pushback and miscalculated that it could do the same on the national network. This assumption backfired spectacularly.2023 August 9, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Disinterested and dishonest”, in RAIL, number 989, page 3
Examples of spectacularly in a sentence
- He just shot a spectacularly over his head round of golf and beat all of us.
- We’ve entered a spectacularly critical, witch hunty, finger pointy episode in the history of humanity.
- Close up, either full-face or in profile, he was surpassingly handsome, even spectacularly so.
Forms of spectacularly
| comparative | more spectacularly |
|---|---|
| superlative | most spectacularly |
Origin of spectacularly
From spectacular + -ly.
Questions about spectacularly
- What does spectacularly mean?
- Spectacularly means in a spectacular manner, extraordinarily, amazingly.
- What part of speech is spectacularly?
- Spectacularly is an adverb.
Words near spectacularly in the dictionary
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