exceedingly

adverb

ex·​ceed·​ing·​ly ik-ˈsē-diŋ-lē 

variants or less commonly exceeding

ik-ˈsē-diŋ 

: to an extreme degree : extremely

Synonyms

• achingly
• almighty
• archly
• awful
• awfully
• badly
• beastly
• blisteringly
• bone
• colossally
• corking
• cracking
• damn
• damned
• dang
• deadly
• desperately
• eminently
• enormously
• especially
• ever
• extra
• extremely
• fabulously
• fantastically
• far
• fiercely
• filthy
• frightfully
• full
• greatly
• heavily
• highly
• hugely
• immensely
• incredibly
• intensely
• jolly
• majorly
• mightily
• mighty
• monstrous [chiefly dialect]
• mortally
• most
• much
• particularly
• passing
• rattling
• real
• really
• right
• roaring
• roaringly
• seriously
• severely
• so
• sore
• sorely
• spanking
• specially
• stinking
• such
• super
• supremely
• surpassingly
• terribly
• that
• thumping
• too
• unco
• uncommonly
• vastly
• very
• vitally
• way
• whacking
• wicked
• wildly

Examples of exceedingly in a Sentence

The weather was exceedingly cold.

The crime rate is exceedingly high.

Recent Examples on the Web

With chemical properties exceedingly similar to typical nutrients like iron and calcium, toxic metals look virtually the same to the body. —Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024

Destroying Iran’s physical nuclear infrastructure would be exceedingly difficult. —Uri Friedman, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2024

The Mummy is an exceedingly elegant and creepy horror picture that seamlessly blends its action and adventure elements. —Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2024

Treasury, in certain instances, seems to have decided on creating an exceedingly complex random number generator. —Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1535, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

exceedingly

adverb

ex·​ceed·​ing·​ly ik-ˈsēd-iŋ-lē 

variants also exceeding

: to a very great degree : extremely

an exceedingly fine job