extremely

[ik-streem-lee] / ɪkˈstrim li /

ADVERB

greatly, intensely

Synonyms

STRONGEST

acutely awfully exceedingly exceptionally excessively extraordinarily highly hugely immensely inordinately intensely overly quite remarkably severely strikingly terribly terrifically too totally uncommonly unduly unusually utterly very

WEAK

almighty drastically exorbitantly immoderately markedly mortally notably over overmuch parlous plenty powerful prohibitively radically rarely surpassingly to nth degree too much ultra violently vitally

Antonyms

STRONGEST

incompletely little

WEAK

mildly moderately

Example Sentences

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In their 2013 study “Golden Dilemma,” they found that over extremely long periods — a century or more — gold does appear to maintain its purchasing power.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026

Official results confirm the race is extremely tight with more than 85% of votes counted.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

"Magnetic nodal-line materials are rare in nature, and in most known cases such crossings are extremely difficult to stabilize or control," explains Sánchez-Barriga.

From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026

Before retail investors could touch the stock, institutional demand was extremely high.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

She knew it was optoomuchstic to think they might get through the evening without running into the Ashtons, or to imagine that such an encounter would be anything less than extremely unpleasant.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

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