INSANELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does insanely mean? 

• INSANELY (adverb)
  The adverb INSANELY has 2 senses:

1. in an insane manner

2. (used as intensives) extremely

  Familiarity information: INSANELY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INSANELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an insane manner

Synonyms:

crazily; dementedly; insanely; madly

Context example:

screaming dementedly

Antonym:

sanely (in a sane or lucid manner)

Pertainym:

insane (afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(used as intensives) extremely

Synonyms:

deadly; deucedly; devilishly; insanely; madly

Context example:

insanely jealous

Domain usage:

intensifier; intensive (a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies)

 Context examples 

“You are talking insanely. I helped her to escape? Where is she now?”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I sprang upon him, blindly, insanely, and drove the knife into his shoulder.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

This gave my aunt such unspeakable satisfaction, that I believe she took a delight in prowling up and down, with her bonnet insanely perched on the top of her head, at times when Mrs. Crupp was likely to be in the way.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This fellow is madly, insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a registry office?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When I got to the office, and, shutting out old Tiffey and the rest of them with my hands, sat at my desk, in my own particular nook, thinking of this earthquake that had taken place so unexpectedly, and in the bitterness of my spirit cursing Jip, I fell into such a state of torment about Dora, that I wonder I did not take up my hat and rush insanely to Norwood.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)