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incredibly

  • adverb
  • /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/

In an incredible manner; not to be believed.

Other meanings

  1. To a great extent; extremely.

    “He was incredibly wealthy.”

  2. 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.”

Example sentences

  • “Space is incredibly cold, with temperatures close to absolute zero.”

    Tatoeba · Igider · CC0
  • “That sounds incredibly boring.”

    Tatoeba · ddnktr · CC0

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “incredibly” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.