adj.
Function: adverb
1 to a high or exceptional degree FF1C; a very successful meeting FF1E;
Synonyms: ||awful, awfully, ||big, ||crazy, damned, ||dreadful, dreadfully, eminently, exceedingly, exceptionally, extremely, greatly, highly, hugely, insatiably, ||larruping, ||main, mightily, mighty, ||monstrous, ||mortacious, mortally, most, much, notably, parlous, pesky, ||pure, rattling, remarkably, right, ||right smart, snapping, so, spanking, staving, strikingly, super, surpassingly, terribly, thoroughly, too, vitally, whacking, whopping
Related Words: passing, quite, somewhat; perfectly, seriously, significantly, tellingly
Idioms: nothing if not
Contrasted Words: inconsiderably, little, scarcely, slightly
2 in actual fact FF1C; told the very same story FF1E;
Synonyms: actually, de facto, genuinely, really, truly, veritably
Related Words: exactly, precisely; almost, nearly, practically, well-nigh
Idioms: in point of fact, in truth
Contrasted Words: apparently, ostensibly, outwardly, seemingly