galacticallyadv.
/ɡəˈlaktᵻkli/, U.S. /ɡəˈlæktək(ə)li/ 1. With regard to a galaxy or galaxies; in galactic terms.
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1903 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 166 135 These stars, however, were not classified galactically.
1934 Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner 7 Feb. 6/6 The universe actually is out of balance, galactically speaking.
1989 New German Critique 47 110 If we must think galactically, another way of imagining that audience is to think of black holes, those gigantic masses which..impact gravity and satellize light.
2007 N. Angier Canon iii. 86 Inner space, outer space, galactically, atomically, no matter. We live in a universe that is largely devoid of matter.
2. To a vast extent or degree; hugely, immensely.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly > hugely or immensely
hugelyc1380
huge1508
enormly1538
monstruously?1548
massively1550
monstrously1602
a worlda1616
hugeouslya1643
immensely1654
vastly1664
swingingly1668
hugeous1673
gigantically1678
vast1688
swingeing1690
thumpingly1693
enormously1695
pancratically1727
immense1754
colossally1809
whooping1866
monumentally1877
pyramidically1886
pyramidally1891
galactically1968
1968 New Left Notes 19 Aug. 6/1 His chances of victory are galactically remote.
1992 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 18 Feb. c1 One of Beethoven's galactically spacious slow movements, which contain almost as much silence as sound.
1995 Denver Post 9 Apr. e2/4 The most galactically stupid woman who ever lived.
2002 U.S. News & World Rep. 22 July 109/4 ‘Galactically inappropriate’ gaffs—like sending a colleague a ‘strippergram’ on Take Our Daughters to Work Day.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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