incredibly

incroyablement, extrêmement

Sert à indiquer un degré ou une intensité très élevés.

En anglais simple : To a very great degree.

• The soup is incredibly hot.
• She was incredibly kind to us.
• How did you finish that incredibly difficult puzzle?

Synonymes : extremely, very, really

Expressions courantes : incredibly hot, incredibly useful, incredibly difficult

incroyablement, étonnamment

Signale qu’un fait surprenant ou difficile à croire est pourtant vrai.

En anglais simple : Used to say that something surprising or hard to believe is actually true.

• Incredibly, nobody was hurt.
• Incredibly, she found her ring in the snow.
• He had lost his passport but, incredibly, still caught the flight.

Synonymes : amazingly, astonishingly

Expressions courantes : incredibly enough, incredibly he survived

incroyablement

D’une manière qu’il est très difficile de croire ou de juger possible.

En anglais simple : In a way that is very difficult to believe or accept as possible.

• His story sounded incredibly farfetched.
• The events were described incredibly, as if magic had caused them.
• The hero survived in an incredibly implausible way.

Synonymes : unbelievably

Contraires : believably

Expressions courantes : incredibly farfetched, incredibly implausible