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Epic vs Epically - What's the difference?

epic | epically |

As a noun epic

is an extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity or demigod (heroic epic) or other legendary or traditional hero.

As an adjective epic

is of, or relating to, an epic.

As an adverb epically is

in an epic manner.

epic

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Initialism

(Initialism) (head)
  • (computing) Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing.
  • (electronics) Etched and Polycrystalline carried IC.
  • (electronics) Epitaxial Integrated Circuit.
  • (legal) Estates and Protected Individuals Code.

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    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In an epic manner.
  • (informal) Extremely; very; significantly.
  • * 2007 , Todd Balf, " Critical Mess", Bicycling , November 2007:
    • It is a rare sunny afternoon in an epically miserable London June when the wide South Bank plaza area along the Thames near Waterloo Bridge begins filling with bicycle riders.
  • * 2008 , Rachel Maude, Poseur: The Good, the Fab and the Ugly , Poppy (2008), ISBN 9780316065849, unnumbered page:
    • Due to some epically drunk behavior at his sister's Prada fashion thing the weekend before last, he'd somehow cheated on his supremely hot, now ex-girlfriend,
  • * 2008 , Joe Stretch, Friction , Vintage (2008), ISBN 9781407013220, page 144:
    • They stopped discussing them because it usually meant epically dull speeches from Steve on market fluctuations and innovations in Internet trading.
  • * 2012 , Penny Vincenzi, More Than You Know , Doubleday (2012), ISBN 9780385534529, unnumbered page:
    • I've been so stupid, so epically stupid and selfish and cruel and …"
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