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词汇 shatteringly
释义 shatteringly
adverb
uk /ˈʃæt.ər.ɪŋ.li/ us /ˈʃæt̬.ɚ.ɪŋ.li/

shatteringlyadverb (UPSETTING)


in a way that makes you feel extremely upset:
She was suddenly and shatteringly rejected.
They all turned against him including, most shatteringly, his youngest brother.
His family called his death "shatteringly sad and utterly heartbreaking".
In the final scene, the fate of his family is shatteringly resolved.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Making people sad, shocked and upset
aback
amiss
appal
be laughing on the other side of your faceidiom
bite
bum
gnaw
haunt
heartbreaker
heartbreakingly
hit/touch a (raw) nerveidiom
nerve
self-lacerating
self-laceration
sensitivity
shake someone out of something
shake someone up
shake/rock something to its foundationsidiom
tear
toxic

shatteringlyadverb (EXTREMELY)


in a very extreme way:
The party has suffered a set of shatteringly bad results in the European elections.
Why has it taken so long to come to this shatteringly obvious conclusion?
a shatteringly loud noise
The car is shatteringly fast.
A long despairing cry rose from the back of his throat and screamed shatteringly across the hall.
The shots were shatteringly loud at that short distance.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Linguistics: very & extreme
abjectly
absolutely
abundantly
abundantly clear
beyond
biblical
downright
extraordinarily
extremely
infinitely
particularly
profoundly
super
super-duper
super-spectacular
superabundantly
surpassingly
totally
violently
whatever
(especially of food) hard enough to be broken easily, or so hard that it breaks something:
shatteringly crispThe best way to get shatteringly crisp chicken skin is to keep steam out of the oven.
The sausages were tooth-shatteringly overcooked.
The pastry is light, paper-thin, and fries up to a shatteringly crisp crunch.
Tempura batter is all about texture, and should be light and shatteringly crisp.
The thin, crinkly bean curd skin was shatteringly crisp.
The caramel was tooth shatteringly hard when you bit into it.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Hard and firm
(as) stiff/straight as a ramrodidiom
adamantine
cast iron
congealed
crisply
dilatancy
dilatant
erect
firm
firmness
fossilized
ossified
petrified
ramrod
rigid
rigidity
solidly
tense
unjointed
unyielding

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