ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Shockingly

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adverb

Quick meaning: Shockingly is an adverb meaning In a shocking manner.

Meaning

In a shocking manner.

More Meanings

  1. To a shocking degree.

Example Sentences

Their efforts were shockingly slipshod.
He had thinned shockingly, losing 100 pounds in the last month of his illness.
He’s forced to travel back to 1969 to prevent an evil alien (a shockingly effective, nearly unrecognizable Jemaine Clement of Flight Of The Conchords, playing sort of a psychotic extraterrestrial-biker serial killer) from destroying the world by killing Brolin. Smith is aided in his quest by an elfin, time-jumping alien with psychic powers played by another Coen brothers veteran, A Serious Man star Michael Stuhlbarg.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include astonishingly, stunningly, surprisingly, uncannily, frighteningly, alarmingly.

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