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Meanings of improbably in English

Portuguese
incrivelmente

Not easy to believe.

incrivelmente

In an improbable manner.

Synonyms
Examples for "incredibly"
Examples for "incredibly"
1
As a result, FORM 6 was slow, extremely expensive, and incredibly good.
Wired
2
He said these were points the government needed to take incredibly seriously.
Radio NZ
3
He said: This has been an incredibly difficult time for all concerned.
The Guardian
4
The months ahead are likely to begin with an incredibly balanced approach.
The South African
5
Mark is incredibly talented, one of the great British actors working today.
The Guardian
1
Almost unbelievably, they let the same thing happen again three minutes later.
The Guardian
2
There were four of them, solid yet transparent, strong yet unbelievably delicate.
Fears Unnamed
3
It is easy to make it easier for these unbelievably good footballers.
The Guardian
4
Roasting meat and mushrooms smelled unbelievably good, and there was fish too.
Enclave
5
The process of beginning a project, I find scary but unbelievably exciting.
The Guardian
1
Despite his recent ordeal, he appeared to be in implausibly good health.
Another life
2
Even today, nine decades on, the unaccompanied choral writing seems implausibly idealistic.
The Irish Times
3
She cupped her mouth and imitated an implausibly tranquil public address warning.
Anthropology of an american girl: a novel
4
It will reach me in a few days, Eco said briskly, if implausibly.
The new yorker
5
The name, a little implausibly, means The Sea Stallion of Glendalough.
The Irish Times
Usage of improbably in English
1
Of course, it helps that he is improbably handsome; almost disquietingly so.
The Guardian
2
We're watching one whose greatest accomplishments, improbably, may be yet to come.
Ebony
3
Either I'd been improbably lucky or Diana was a very good actress.
The Forever War
4
At 19, he was impossibly young for the tournament, and improbably handsome.
The Guardian
5
The worthless artist would not improbably have been a quite incompetent baker.
Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays
6
But he'd started it, improbably, and he knew of no conversational exit.
The sherlockian
7
Not improbably he had never before viewed himself as he did now.
The Scarlet Letter
8
They not improbably marry,-themen do, at least,-andmake good average husbands.
The Eustace Diamonds
9
I met a man who improbably drew me closer towards my uncle.
The Guardian
10
JD Salinger met Laurence Sterne and, improbably, they became best friends.
The Guardian
11
But the condition of aggregation may not improbably vary somewhat in different specimens.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889
12
His party's program, somewhat improbably, calls for nuclear rearmament of Ukraine.
Reuters
13
He may not improbably be our companion in Wales next year.
The Prose Works of William Wordsworth / For the First Time Colle...
14
Not improbably it was two thousand feet down to the river.
The Lone Star Ranger: A Romance of the Border
15
It may not improbably force me to give up the living.
Dr. Wortle's School
16
A somewhat stolid Cup final had been improbably transformed by two exquisite goals.
The Guardian
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