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spectacularly en · ADV

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree English spectacular Middle English -ly English -ly English spectacularly From spectacular + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a spectacular manner, extraordinarily, amazingly.
   • Obsessed only with cost, 'Sir Humphrey' saw that Transport for London 'got away' with ticket office closures on the Tube with only minor public pushback and miscalculated that it could do the same on the national network. This assumption backfired spectacularly. 2023 August 9, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Disinterested and dishonest”, in RAIL, number 989, page 3:
   • This argument turns out to be spectacularly mistaken. When fiction works, the individual and the universal are frictionlessly combined. 1992 August 30, Martin Amis, “What He Learned in Bed”, in The New York Times:

Forms

Translations (8)

es espectacularmente (in a spectacular manner) · hu látványosan (in a spectacular manner) · it spettacolarmente (in a spectacular manner) · pt espetacularmente (in a spectacular manner) · fi loisteliaasti (in a spectacular manner) · pl bajerancko (in a spectacular manner) · fi loistavasti (in a spectacular manner) · ca espectacularment (in a spectacular manner)