staggeringly

To overwhelming degree

Staggeringly is an intensifier meaning to an astonishing or overwhelming degree: staggeringly beautiful, staggeringly expensive, staggeringly incompetent.

The word suggests something so extreme it might cause you to stagger—to lose your balance from shock or disbelief.

It emphasizes that a quality exceeds normal expectations by a wide margin.

astonishment

amazingly

In astonishing manner

breathtakingly · mind-blowingly · jaw-droppingly · spectacularly · phenomenally · wondrously · miraculously · fantastically · marvelously · stupendously

magnitude

enormously

To vast degree

hugely · colossally · massively · monumentally · astronomically · prodigiously · titanically · epically · overwhelmingly · extraordinarily

shock

shockingly

In a startling manner

horrifyingly · frighteningly · startlingly · jarringly · unsettlingly · scandalously · outrageously · sensationally · traumatically · chillingly

disorientation

dizzyingly

In head-spinning manner

disorientingly · vertiginously · swayingly · tipsily · groggily · faintly

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degree/intensity

staggeringlymildly

In a gentle way

slightly · barely · marginally · minimally · modestly

impact/impressiveness

staggeringlyunremarkably

In an ordinary manner

ordinarily · commonly · normally · predictably · mundanely

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G