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US
/ɪkˈsidɪŋɫi/
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[ UK /ɛksˈiːdɪŋli/ ]
[ UK /ɛksˈiːdɪŋli/ ]
ADVERB
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to an extreme degree
the night was deathly cold
extremely unpleasant
she is super smart
as a child, I was deathly afraid of snakes
extremely cold
How To Use exceedingly In A Sentence
- The two ends put together form one constant table for everything, and the centre piece stands exceedingly well under the glass, and holds a great deal most commodiously.
- He was an exceedingly capable and highly regarded individual. Times, Sunday Times
- This process, called supergene enrichment, can concentrate silver into exceedingly rich deposits at depth.
- This makes the task of introducing tolerance to parasites or disease via genetic modification exceedingly difficult, if not impossible. PHYLLOXERA: How Wine was Saved for the World
- The obscurity of the pleading which is, if I may so with respect to the drafter of it, exceedingly clever, because the pleading is in terms always of a duty of care to do something and it is there the elision of two very separate ideas.
- “Night and day praying exceedingly,” that is, praying out of measure, with intense earnestness, superabundantly, beyond measure, exceeding abundantly. The Weapon of Prayer
- The most important was that "surprises' were exceedingly dangerous in the nuclear age. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
- She was exceedingly beautiful, fully grown yet young still, and in her eyes was a depth and maturity that never ceased to captivate the looker.
- Frenchmen, on craniology, which is exceedingly interesting, but full of difficulty, and giving very diverse indications. Travels in West Africa
- As a result of this decomposition very minute bodies, to which the name corpuscles has been given, are projected from the radium atom with exceedingly great velocity. An Elementary Study of Chemistry