shockingly

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shockingly

adverb more shockingly · most shockingly

  1. In a shocking manner. He had thinned shockingly, losing 100 pounds in the last month of his illness.
  2. To a shocking degree. Their efforts were shockingly slipshod.

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Closest in meaning: astonishingly, stunningly, surprisingly, uncannily, frighteningly, alarmingly, frightfully, distressingly, shocker, terribly, bizarrely, dreadfully, appallingly, painfully, desperately, horribly

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@misc{shockingly_2026,
  title = {shockingly},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/shockingly},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}