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# incredibly

«incredibly» in Mova's school dictionary: **extremely or very, very: «It was incredibly cold»** — 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 (incredibly)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Incredibly means extremely or very, very: «It was incredibly cold». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incredibly/#m1)

2) Incredibly can mean in a way that is hard to believe: «Incredibly, the cat survived the fall». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incredibly/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Very common in everyday speech, stories and TV to make a describing word stronger. Phrases: «incredibly hard», «incredibly lucky», «incredibly, …».

### examples

- The test was incredibly hard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incredibly/#x1)
- She is incredibly good at chess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incredibly/#x2)
- It was incredibly hot at the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incredibly/#x3)
- Incredibly, the little team won the cup. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incredibly/#x4)
- That roller coaster is incredibly fast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incredibly/#x5)
- We were incredibly lucky with the weather. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incredibly/#x6)
- The puppy is incredibly cute. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incredibly/#x7)
- Incredibly, nobody was hurt in the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incredibly/#x8)
- In an incredibly short time Danhasch returned, bearing the sleeping princess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incredibly/#x9)

### note

Spelled with -ibly: incredible becomes incredibly. Often overused in speech; in writing try other words like «extremely», «remarkably». At the start of a sentence it means «hard to believe».

### In the corpora

- [A computer is not clever the way you are; it is incredibly fast and incredibly obedient.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/36-computers-and-screens/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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