amazingly

Etymology

amazing + -ly

adv

1. In an amazing manner; in a way that causes amazement; wonderfully.
   That violin solo was played amazingly.
   While at first in the U.S.A. it may have been a matter of high-pressure salesmanship—and it has undoubtely been the irresistible enterprise of the General Motors Corporation, through its Electro-Motive subsidiary, that has set in motion this amazingly rapid transformation of American railway motive power, and has caused all the steam locomotive builders in the U.S.A. to follow suit or be left out in the cold—it seems now beyond dispute that, so far as the U.S.A. is concerned, the economics of the power question can be solved no other way. 1950 January, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, pages 12–13
2. Difficult to believe; strange but true.
   Amazingly, no one was injured in the crash.
   Signalman Bridges was killed by the blast, as was fireman Nightall. Amazingly, driver Gimbert came round some 200 yards away, on the grass outside the Station Hotel where he had been flung. January 12 2022, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43
3. To a wonder-inspiring extent.
   The car has amazingly low fuel consumption.