extremely

English

Alternative forms

• extreamely (obsolete)

Etymology

extreme +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪksˈtɹiːmli/

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Adverb

extremely (comparative more extremely, superlative most extremely)

1. (degree) To an extreme degree.
   • 2015 April 14, “America's First All-Girl Quintuplets Born in Texas Hospital”, in Time‎^[1]:

     The National Center for Health Statistics' latest data indicate that quintuplets are extremely rare, with 66 reported sets of five or more babies in 2013.

Derived terms

• extremely low frequency

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:extremely

Translations

to an extreme degree

• Armenian: չափազանց (hy) (čʿapʿazancʿ), սաստիկ (hy) (sastik)
• Bulgarian: кра́йно (bg) (krájno)
• Catalan: extremadament (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 非常 (zh) (fēicháng), 極其 (zh) (jíqí), 極 (zh), 极 (zh) (jí), 極度 (zh), 极度 (zh) (jídù), (used after the adjective) 極了 (zh), 极了 (zh) (jíle)

• Czech: extrémně (cs)
• Dutch: uitermate (nl), extreem (nl)
• Esperanto: treege
• Finnish: äärimmäisen (fi), erittäin (fi)
• French: extrêmement (fr), vachement (fr) (slang)
• Galician: extremadamente
• Georgian: უაღრესად (uaɣresad), უკიდურესად (uḳiduresad)
• German: extrem (de), äußerst (de), krass (de) (slang)
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌱𐍂𐌰𐌱𐌰 (abraba)
• Greek: άκρως (el) (ákros)
• Hungarian: rendkívül (hu)

• Ido: extreme (io)
• Irish: cumasach
• Italian: estremamente (it)
• Japanese: 極端に (ja) (きょくたんに, kyokutan ni), 随分 (ja) (ずいぶん, zuibun), 非常に (ja) (ひじょうに, hijō ni)
• Karakhanid: اَيِغْ‎ (ayïɣ)
• Latin: perquam
• Maori: hītararī
• Navajo: tʼáá íiyisíí, tʼóó báhádzigo
• Old Turkic: 𐰪𐰃𐰍‎ (ańïɣ)
• Polish: niezwykle (pl)
• Portuguese: extremamente (pt)
• Romanian: în mod extrem
• Russian: чрезвыча́йно (ru) (črezvyčájno), кра́йне (ru) (krájne), экстрема́льно (ru) (ekstremálʹno)
• Spanish: extremadamente (es), sumamente (es), harto (es)
• Swedish: extremt (sv)
• Tocharian B: tanki
• Vietnamese: vô cùng (vi), tột bậc (vi), tột bực, tột cùng, hết sức (vi), cực độ
• Volapük: mu (vo)
• Walloon: carapmint (wa), teribmint (wa)