inordinately

[US]/in'ɔ:dinitli/
[UK]/ɪnˈ ɔrd n..ɪtlɪ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adv. excessively; extremely.

Example Sentences

inordinately interested in matters of sex

The prices at that store are inordinately high.

She was inordinately excited about the upcoming trip.

He spent an inordinately long time getting ready for the party.

The professor was inordinately strict with his grading.

She was inordinately pleased with the results of her hard work.

The company's profits have grown inordinately over the past year.

He was inordinately proud of his daughter's achievements.

The new regulations have led to inordinately long wait times.

She was inordinately kind to everyone she met.

The project took an inordinately long time to complete.

Real-world Examples

Mr. Reese, I am inordinately happy to see you.

Source: TV series Person of Interest Season 3

Our lamps cast a sort of brilliant twilight over the area, making inordinately long shadows on the seafloor.

Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Original Version)

Both his parents were inordinately rich coming from a long line of successful surgeons in Poitiers, in west central France.

Source: History of Western Philosophy

They were both excited now and inordinately depressed.

Source: Beauty and Destruction (Part 2)

She was inordinately jealous of Sara.

Source: The Little Princess (Original Version)

They laughed, the Prince inordinately meanwhile clapping Tommy on the back.

Source: The Night is Gentle (Part Two)

It was unlike Isabel to gush inordinately and I wondered if she was a trifle tight.

Source: Blade (Part Two)

After each reminiscence they both laughed inordinately, their overwrought nerves responding as acutely and janglingly to mirth as to depression.

Source: Beauty and Destruction (Part 2)

The " new fellow" then took a supreme resolution, opened an inordinately large mouth, and shouted at the top of his voice as if calling someone in the word " Charbovari" .

Source: Madame Bovary (Part One)

The upper lip was inordinately full, as though swollen by a blow or a toothache; and the smile, the peaked eyebrows, and the small, strong eyes were quaintly and almost comically evil in expression.

Source: The New Arabian Nights (Part Two)

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