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# amazingly

«amazingly» in Mova's school dictionary: **In a way that causes great surprise** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (amazingly)

### meaning for a pupil

1) In a way that causes great surprise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amazingly/#m1)

2) Very, extremely: «amazingly fast». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amazingly/#m2)

3) Used to say something is surprising: «Amazingly, nobody was hurt». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amazingly/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Very common in everyday talk and stories for strong praise or surprise. Phrases: «amazingly good», «amazingly enough».

### examples

- She runs amazingly fast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amazingly/#x1)
- Amazingly, the cake didn't burn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amazingly/#x2)
- The view was amazingly beautiful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amazingly/#x3)
- Amazingly enough, the dog found its way home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amazingly/#x4)
- He did amazingly well in the spelling test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amazingly/#x5)
- The ant can carry amazingly heavy loads for its size. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amazingly/#x6)
- The Frog enjoyed the water amazingly, and swam croaking about, as if he had done a good deed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amazingly/#x7)

### note

From «amazing». Overusing it weakens writing; try «remarkably», «surprisingly», «incredibly».

### In the corpora

- [Egypt had a state earlier, but China's civilisation has gone on without stopping for an amazingly long time.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/51-china-five-thousand-years-the-oldest-dynasties/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «amazingly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amazingly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.