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Stunningly

Definition: Stunningly

Stunningly

Adverb

1. In a spectacular manner; "the area was spectacularly scenic".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stunningly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1854. (references)


Synonym: Stunningly

Synonym: spectacularly (adv). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Stunningly

English words defined with "stunningly": ravishing. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Stunningly

DomainTitle

Books

  • Amazingly Helpful Insights from a Stunningly Handsome Writer: A Collection of Humor and Heartbreak, Uncommon Common Sense About People and Points-Of- (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Usage Frequency: Stunningly

"Stunningly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Stunningly" is used about 83 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%8336,350

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Stunningly

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "stunningly": stunningly-wrought.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Stunningly

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

pink series stunningly teen

14

beautiful stunningly

2

pink stunningly teen

2

beautiful model pink series stunningly teen

2
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Modern Translation: Stunningly

Language Translations for "stunningly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏بصورة مثيرة. (various references)

   

French

  

d'une manière sensationnelle. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ζαλιστικώσ (staggeringly), εκπληκτικώσ (surprisingly). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

굉장하게 (Amazingly). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

unninglystay

   

Russian 

  

потрясающе (appallingly, shockingly, terrifically). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sensacionalmente. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

чудово (adorably, capitally, finely, ideally, incomparably, nobly, noteworthily, perfectly, primely, remarkably, splendid, super-duper, very good, wonder, wow), шикарно. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Stunningly

Misspellings

"Stunningly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Stanningley, stonkingly, stuningly. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Stunningly"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "stunningly" (pronounced stu"ninglē)
5-n i ng l ēfrighteningly, frowningly, maddeningly, threateningly, warningly.
4-i ng l ēaccordingly, accusingly, admiringly, agonizingly, alarmingly, amazingly, amusingly, appallingly, appealingly, approvingly, astonishingly, astoundingly, breathtakingly, charmingly, chillingly, compellingly, confusingly, convincingly, correspondingly, demandingly, depressingly, devastatingly, disappointingly, disarmingly, disparagingly, distressingly, disturbingly, embarrassingly, exceedingly, excruciatingly, fittingly, fleetingly, frustratingly, glowingly, grudgingly, haltingly, hauntingly, increasingly, interestingly, intriguingly, jokingly, kiddingly, knowingly, laughingly, longingly, lovingly, menacingly, misleadingly, movingly, numbingly, obligingly, overwhelmingly, painstakingly, pleasingly, reassuringly, refreshingly, resoundingly, screamingly, seemingly, shockingly, smilingly, soothingly, sparingly, sportingly, startlingly, strikingly, surprisingly, tantalizingly, tellingly, unfailingly, unhesitatingly, unknowingly, unsurprisingly, unthinkingly, unwillingly, unwittingly, willingly, wittingly.
3-ng l ēgangly, kingly, Langley, strongly, wrongly.

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Anagrams: Stunningly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "g-i-l-n-n-n-s-t-u-y"

-2 letters: stunning.

-3 letters: gustily, gutsily, lungyis, lunting, lusting, lutings, styling, sunnily, sunning, tunings, tunning, unsling, untying.

-4 letters: glints, guilts, guilty, insult, lungis, lungyi, luting, lyings, lysing, singly, sluing, snugly, stingy, stying, sunlit, tingly, tuning, tyning.

-5 letters: gilts, ginny, glint, gluts, guilt, gunny, gusty, gutsy, iglus, lings, lingy, linns, lints, linty, lungi, lungs, lunts, lusty, lying.

 Words containing the letters "g-i-l-n-n-n-s-t-u-y"
 

+2 letters: unstintingly.

 

+3 letters: insinuatingly.

 

+5 letters: understandingly, unquestioningly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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