surpassingly

1. 1.

   to an extraordinary degree

   “she was a surpassingly beautiful woman”

   “I will mention only one particular aspect of the current mess because ... this one is surely something new and passing strange”

   Synonymspassing

Questions about surpassingly

What does surpassingly mean?

surpassingly means "to an extraordinary degree".

How many syllables are in surpassingly?

surpassingly has 4 syllables: sur-pas-sin-gly. The stress falls on "pas".

What is another word for surpassingly?

Close synonyms include passing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is surpassingly a common word?

surpassingly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.