extremely

To an extreme degree.

Adverb

  1. To an extreme degree.
    • The National Center for Health Statistics' latest data indicate that quintuplets are extremely rare, with 66 reported sets of five or more babies in 2013. - 2015 April 14, “America's First All-Girl Quintuplets Born in...

Origin

Etymology tree English extreme Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English extremely From extreme + -ly.

Forms

more extremely most extremely extreamely extreamly

Synonyms

acutely awfully almighty badly beyond damn drastically exceedingly extraordinarily highly hugely immensely indecently insanely intensely jolly mightily murrain severely strikingly terribly very much violently wicked

Related

degree quantity Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 31. Greatness

Derived

extremely low frequency