incredibly
adverb
uk/ɪnˈkred.ə.bli/us/ɪnˈkred.ə.bli/incrediblyadverb(DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE)
C1
used for saying that something is verydifficulttobelieve:
难以置信地Incredibly, no one washurtin theaccident.事故中居然没有人受伤,这真是令人难以置信。
- Wemissedourflightbut, incredibly, got there ontime.
- Hiscarturnedover andcaughtonfireandyet, incredibly, heescapedunscathed.
Not believable
- (that's) a likely story!idiom
- belief
- by no stretch (of the imagination)idiom
- fanciful
- fancifully
- far-fetched
- I must be hearing thingsidiom
- implausibility
- implausible
- implausibly
- incredible
- joke
- pass
- stretch
- too good to be trueidiom
- unbelievable
- unbelievably
- unconvincing
- wash
- weak
incrediblyadverb(EXTREMELY)
B2
extremely:
极其He was incrediblyrich/angry/quick.他极其富有/生气/迅速。
An incrediblyloudbangfollowedtheflash.闪电之后跟着一声震耳欲聋的巨响。
- Wethoughtthat Egypt was an incrediblyromanticcountry.
- Thiscoffeeis incrediblysmoothandrich.
- Myauntis incrediblyvague- she can neverrememberwhere she'sleftthings.
- He'soverweightandbald, andyetsomehow, he's incrediblyattractive.
- Theirshowsare always incrediblycampandflamboyant.
Linguistics: very & extreme
- abjectly
- abundantly
- beyond
- biblical
- blankly
- completely
- desperately
- extreme
- highly
- positive
- rank
- raving
- smack
- spectacularly
- such
- terrible
- terribly
- unutterably
- veritably
- wonderfully