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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
extraordinarily
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
beautiful
▪ In a minuscule black and white bikini, the girl was extraordinarily beautiful.
▪ In places, usually in its more reflective moments, this can be quite extraordinarily beautiful.
▪ Her extraordinarily beautiful and intelligent eyes were always carefully lined with kohl.
▪ She was so extraordinarily beautiful that I nearly laughed out loud ... She sipped some beer and went back to her book.
▪ Tuscany's main attraction is its extraordinarily beautiful landscape, almost unchanged since medieval times.
▪ And, as he smiled, he was gazing into the eyes of an extraordinarily beautiful dark-haired girl.
▪ Enya is extraordinarily beautiful, but there seems little point in asking her about love affairs anymore.
difficult
▪ The fragmentation of politics has made it extraordinarily difficult to bring a coordinated attack on overall questions about the system.
▪ Once they are enmeshed in the often-chaotic foster care system it is extraordinarily difficult to get out of it.
▪ Putting is one of the enigmas of an extraordinarily difficult game.
▪ It became extraordinarily difficult for them to speak with one voice on critical issues.
▪ Attempting to block the expression of c -fos is extraordinarily difficult.
▪ Handling the minute amounts of material required remains extraordinarily difficult.
▪ This is an extraordinarily difficult balancing act, particularly with new artists.
▪ The issues involved are extraordinarily difficult and their resolution is complicated.
good
▪ Give them a pat on the head if they have made an extraordinarily good job of a difficult task.
▪ Dooley, he was convinced, was extraordinarily good for something.
▪ That is one of the most extraordinarily good development deals around.
▪ Thus, it is no accident that military medicine, at its best, is extraordinarily good.
▪ I wish I wasn't an extraordinarily good child!
high
▪ Energy efficiency is extraordinarily high too, with calorie consumption about one-fifth of that of walking.
▪ Interest rates were extraordinarily high during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
▪ Their report is the most comprehensive yet on the extraordinarily high incidence of leukaemia among children living near the nuclear plant.
▪ First, the shipyard workers were ex-posed to the deadly blue and brown varieties of asbestos, and in extraordinarily high concentrations.
▪ She was wearing shoes with extraordinarily high heels.
long
▪ Julius stared at her for what seemed like an extraordinarily long time.
▪ His fingers are extraordinarily long and fine, as if sculpted from marble.
▪ But the four-ball format was unwieldy and led to extraordinarily long rounds of five hours or more.
▪ His arms and legs were extraordinarily long and supple.
▪ The eyelashes can be extraordinarily long.
▪ Another misapprehension about the corpse of the woman had to do with what Victor took to be her extraordinarily long fingernails.
▪ Diplodocus, in fact, reached 28 metres in length and had an extraordinarily long neck and whip-like tail.
▪ They are among the dozens of people in this beautiful, isolated region who live extraordinarily long lives.
powerful
▪ Presidents in their dealings with congress had to cope with some extraordinarily powerful leaders.
▪ He was an extraordinarily powerful individual, and he demanded extraordinary power.
▪ It is an extraordinarily powerful political weapon.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ She looks extraordinarily beautiful tonight.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All four were extraordinarily clever, given to fantasy and melancholy, and impractical to the point of danger.
▪ Dooley, he was convinced, was extraordinarily good for something.
▪ First, the shipyard workers were ex-posed to the deadly blue and brown varieties of asbestos, and in extraordinarily high concentrations.
▪ Sometimes, if you were extraordinarily lucky, he answered it himself.
▪ The fragmentation of politics has made it extraordinarily difficult to bring a coordinated attack on overall questions about the system.
▪ Thus, it is no accident that military medicine, at its best, is extraordinarily good.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Extraordinarily

Extraordinarily \Ex*traor"di*na*ri*ly\, adv. In an extraordinary manner or degree.

Wiktionary
extraordinarily

adv. In an extraordinary manner.

WordNet
extraordinarily

adv. extremely; "she was inordinately smart"; "it will be an extraordinarily painful step to negotiate" [syn: inordinately]

Usage examples of "extraordinarily".

Hearing Bouzes laud the metalworking skills of his troops, which could finally be put to full use by virtue of the extraordinarily well-equipped smithy located in the rear of the imperial compound, Baresmanas expressed a desire to observe the soldiers at their work.

He had gone extraordinarily, insanely crazy, reading old Burpee catalogs at night when he was unable to sleep and scanning the few books on gardening that the school library kept.

Henry Burrage, and second, that her nature was extraordinarily beautiful.

As he hung there, Masin had held up the handle of a pickaxe as high as he could reach against the smooth wall, as a crossbar on which Malipieri had succeeded in getting a slight foothold, enough for a man who was not heavy and was extraordinarily active.

Has it occurred to you, if the lethal injection was given during the operation, how extraordinarily favourable the mise en scene was for the murderer?

I also made her outspoken, extraordinarily curious, and smart as hell.

When they then stimulated the perforant pathway with a train of electrical impulses, at the rate of 10-100 per second for up to 10 seconds, they found an extraordinarily long-lasting increase in the firing of the hippocampal neurons of the dentate gyrus, persisting for up to ten hours.

Orientalism from philology, and it is the extraordinarily rich and celebrated cultural position of that discipline that endowed Orientalism with its most important technical characteristics.

Till the small hours, very often he was accustomed to sit up absorbed in those chess problems, the composing and solving of which were his great passion, so that, indeed, it is probable that under other circumstances he might have passed a perfectly harmless and peaceful existence, known to wide circles as an extraordinarily clever problemist and utterly unknown elsewhere.

She knew that the large rammer fleet would soon be completed: extraordinarily armored kamikaze battleships to be crewed by Soldier compies.

He seemed to have decided what was wrong with her, and he looked up at Harry, reminding him extraordinarily of his step-father.

Butler was just an ordinary schmo whose ordinary life had been extraordinarily screwed by bad advice from a pastry.

He became extraordinarily fluent in ASL and he and Jennie carried on conversations together, he signing so fast that one could hardly see his fingers move, while Jennie watched spellbound, and then fumbled her reply, always eager to keep up.

Here especially the flak is extraordinarily heavy, the sorties are difficult.

Sophies were astonished to see that the stranger was extraordinarily like their own vessel, even to the exaggerated steeve of her bowsprit.