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やけに Japanese meaning | Kotomora
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It's awfully hot today, isn't it?
Usage patterns やけに 〈 形けい 容よう 詞し 〉 unusually/surprisingly [adjective]
It's unusually hot today, isn't it?
やけに 〈 動どう 詞し 〉 to do [verb] surprisingly much/intensely
He's being unusually enthusiastic.
やけに 〈 人ひと 〉 に 優やさ しい to be strangely/unusually kind to someone
She's being strangely kind to me today.
Related words とても is a neutral intensifier meaning 'very', while やけに adds a subjective sense of surprise or unreasonableness to the degree.
非常に is a formal, neutral way to say 'extremely', whereas やけに is colloquial and implies the speaker finds the degree odd or excessive.
無性に typically describes an uncontrollable urge or craving, while やけに more broadly marks any surprisingly high degree.
やけに and やたら can both intensify an adjective to mean 'unusually/excessively', but やけに carries a stronger sense of surprise at an unexpected degree, while やたら simply marks excess or lack of restraint.
Etymology Derived from 自棄 (やけ, 'desperation, self-abandonment'), with the adverbial particle に. The original sense of 'desperately' softened into a colloquial intensifier.
