flabbergastingly
English edit
Etymology edit
From flabbergasting + -ly.
Adverb edit
flabbergastingly (comparative more flabbergastingly, superlative most flabbergastingly)
- Surprisingly, astonishingly or amazingly
- It was a good date but the food at the restaurant was so flabbergastingly excellent I could barely think of anything else to talk about.
- He had said he would clean his room a thousand times before, but this time he actually did it, and flabbergastingly well too.
- 1922, George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken. The smart set: a magazine of cleverness, Volume 69. Ess Ess Pub. Co. page 49.
- (There) must be sympathy in the back parlor if it is to get its message across, and that this flabbergastingly important message... is as follows:...
- 1971, George Jean Nathan, Materia critica, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, page 115:
- The critical wonderment over the at times curious unevenness of Monckton Hoffe's dramatic writing, over the startlingly good suddenly crossed with the flabbergastingly bad, and vice versa...
- 2009, Jason McWhorter, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English, Penguin:
- As I write, the flabbergastingly fecund David Crystal has just published another book in the tradition, The Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left.