amazingly

«amazingly» in Mova's school dictionary: In a way that causes great surprise — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adverb (amazingly)

meaning for a pupil

1) In a way that causes great surprise. tree →

2) Very, extremely: «amazingly fast». tree →

3) Used to say something is surprising: «Amazingly, nobody was hurt». tree →

sense in the lessons

Very common in everyday talk and stories for strong praise or surprise. Phrases: «amazingly good», «amazingly enough».

examples

• She runs amazingly fast. tree →
• Amazingly, the cake didn't burn. tree →
• The view was amazingly beautiful. tree →
• Amazingly enough, the dog found its way home. tree →
• He did amazingly well in the spelling test. tree →
• The ant can carry amazingly heavy loads for its size. tree →
• The Frog enjoyed the water amazingly, and swam croaking about, as if he had done a good deed. tree →

note

From «amazing». Overusing it weakens writing; try «remarkably», «surprisingly», «incredibly».

In the corpora

• Egypt had a state earlier, but China's civilisation has gone on without stopping for an amazingly long time.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «amazingly» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.