exceedingly

[ ik-see-ding-lee ]

adverb

1. to an unusual degree; very; extremely:

   The children were doing exceedingly well in school.

Word History and Origins

Origin of exceedingly¹

1425–75; late Middle English. See exceeding, -ly

Example Sentences

Of the 9,000 people who have reported a side effect—which is exceedingly less than 1 percent of the people who have been vaccinated—the bulk of those reports were fatigue, nausea, chills, and headaches.

From Popular-Science

So, when the exceedingly rare opportunity to interview Didion presents itself, one takes it.

From Time

Simultaneously, because we have a seasoned team and Scott’s terrific track record around Freshpet, a company that has done exceedingly well, a lot of doors opened for us that I think wouldn’t have otherwise.

From Fortune

Employing a process called boson sampling, Jiuzhang generates a distribution of numbers that is exceedingly difficult for a classical computer to replicate.

From Science News

His theory is that digital advertising is grotesquely overvalued because it’s still so hard to measure, and one reason it’s hard to measure is that the marketplace is exceedingly opaque.

From Freakonomics

From there, the company continued to do exceedingly well, likely beyond any of their initial expectations.

From The Daily Beast

The Raptor is also difficult and expensive to maintain and is exceedingly difficult to upgrade.

From The Daily Beast

And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.

From The Daily Beast

Under normal circumstances, the success of a friend always made me exceedingly happy and proud.

From The Daily Beast

Another is the fact that even the best dictionaries struggle to detect exceedingly rare words.

From The Daily Beast

He glanced aside, and saw an exceedingly pretty, dark face, which looked vaguely familiar.

From Project Gutenberg

The friars were exceedingly wroth, and combined to defeat the Generalʼs efforts to come to an understanding with the rebels.

From Project Gutenberg

The works of God are exceedingly glorious and wonderful: no man is able sufficiently to praise him.

From Project Gutenberg

It is exceedingly difficult and is one of the few of his compositions that it interests Liszt to know that people play.

From Project Gutenberg

He spoke Urdu exceedingly well, and it was difficult in the gloom to recognize him as a European.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• awfully
• enormously
• excessively
• extraordinarily
• extremely
• highly
• hugely
• inordinately
• really
• remarkably
• strikingly
• terribly
• unusually
• vastly