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# incredibly

adverb (incredibly)

«incredibly» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Incredibly means extremely or very, very: «It was incredibly cold». [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incredibly/#m2)

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «incredibly» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incredibly/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«incredibly» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/incredibly.html) on Mova free.