Gobsmackingly
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adverb
Quick meaning: Gobsmackingly is an adverb meaning (slang, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Astonishingly; amazingly.
Meaning
(slang, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Astonishingly; amazingly.
Example Sentences
The AAA company Millie’s suing is run by a crooked mogul played by Taika Watiti, doing a gobsmackingly awful caricature of modern tech-bro arrogance.
“September was, in my professional opinion as a climate scientist, absolutely gobsmackingly bananas,” said Zeke Hausfather, at the Berkeley Earth climate data project.
1992, Mark Lewisohn, Root Into Europe, BBC Guide to Comedy Astonishingly blunt, completely oblivious to the fact that his opinions and rudeness might be alien or offensive to others, and gobsmackingly ignorant of any other point of view.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include bogglingly, breathtakingly, astonishingly, gape-mouthed, whoppingly, head-spinningly.
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