crushingly

«crushingly» in Mova's school dictionary: very strongly or in a way that is overwhelming, so you… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adverb

meaning for a pupil

1) Crushingly means very strongly or in a way that is overwhelming, so you feel defeated or flattened. tree →

2) Crushingly is used before adjectives like «boring», «disappointing» or «obvious» to mean «extremely». tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in sports reports and stories: «crushingly defeated» (beaten by a lot), «crushingly disappointing» (very upsetting). It tells the reader the feeling or result was overwhelming.

examples

• Our team was crushingly defeated, 9–0. tree →
• The ending of the film was crushingly sad. tree →
• The long speech was crushingly boring. tree →
• It was crushingly obvious that he had eaten the cake. tree →
• The news was crushingly disappointing for the fans. tree →
• The heat was crushingly heavy in the afternoon. tree →

note

Adjective: crushing (a crushing defeat). Verb: crush. In a sports problem, «crushingly beaten» means a big difference in score.

Trees and pragmatics

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