RBDEG Degree adverbs

Definition

Adverbs of degree (e.g., very, quite, rather).

Detection Rules

xiao_2009

Requires: usas

USAS code: A13

usas

cql[lemma={words} & pos="RB|RBR|RBS"]
Word list (158 items)
aboot about absolutely abundantly achingly ad all almost altogether amply any appreciably approx approx. approximately around as awful awfully barely bitterly bloody blooming broadly but chock closely completely considerably damn damned dashed dead dearly decidedly deeply desperately devastatingly doubly downright drastically dreadfully drop-dead earnestly eminently enormously entirely even exceedingly exceptionally excruciatingly extremely fabulously fairly fantastically far fearfully fiendishly fiercely fractionally frightfully fully greatly grossly hardly heartily heavily helluva highly horrendously hugely immensely increasingly incredibly indeed infinitely intensely jolly kinda largely least less literally little mad mainly majorly marginally merely mightily mighty mildly moderately more most mostly much nearly outrageously outright outstandingly overly overwhelmingly partially particularly partly perfectly phenomenally plain practically predominantly predominately pretty primarily principally profoundly quite real really reasonably relatively remarkably remotely ridiculously roughly scarcely seriously sightly simply singularly slenderly slightly some somewhat sound strongly sufficiently terrifically that thereabouts this thoroughly totally tremendously ultra unbelievably under unreservedly unutterably vastly very virtually way well-nigh wholly wildly woefully wonderfully

Requires: lemma, pos

Normalization

Per words

Sources

  • xiao_2009 — Xiao, Richard (2009) : Multidimensional analysis and the study of world Englishes
  • usas — Rayson, Paul; Archer, Dawn; Piao, Scott; McEnery, Tony (2004) : The UCREL Semantic Analysis System