Spectacularly

adv

adv ·5 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    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."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a spectacular manner wordnet

Example

More examples

"It was all-or-nothing and we struck out spectacularly."

Etymology

From spectacular + -ly.

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