incredibly

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incredibly

  • /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/

adverb more incredibly · most incredibly

  1. In an incredible manner; not to be believed. With the parental exaggeration which the birth of his various enterprises always induced, O'Sullivan spoke incredibly of eighty-five "enrolled" members.
  2. To a great extent; extremely. He was incredibly wealthy.
  3. Used to note the surprising or hard-to-believe nature of what is being said and suggest that it is nevertheless true. Incredibly, when he died they found he had left a million dollars to the Poetry Foundation.

Similar: unbelievably

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: unbelievably, improbably, implausibly, incredible, unbelievable, inconceivably, unimaginably, impossibly, immeasurably, unlikely, unspeakably, unbearably, unusually, infinitely, singularly, surprisingly

adverb

Similar: unbelievably

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adv In an incredible manner

Españolincreíblemente
Portuguêsincrivelmente
Françaisincroyablement
Italianoincredibilmente
Русскийневероя́тно neverojátno

adv To a great extent; extremely

Españolincreíblemente
Portuguêsincrivelmente
Françaisincroyablement
Deutschunglaublich
Italianoincredibilmente, estremamente
Русскийневероя́тно neverojátno
Tiếng Việtkhó tin nổi

adv used to indicate surprising nature of a true statement

Portuguêsincrivelmente
Françaisincroyablement
Italianoincredibilmente
Русскийневероя́тно neverojátno

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@misc{incredibly_2026,
  title = {incredibly},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/incredibly},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}