greatly
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɡɹeɪtli/
greatly (comparative greatlier, superlative greatliest)
- To a great extent or degree.
- Synonyms: very, drastically
- Expenses greatly exceeded revenues this year.
- He was more greatly beloved than anyone in living memory.
- (archaic) Nobly; magnanimously.
- 1823, Catherine George Ward, The Cottage on the Cliff: A Sea-side Story (page 251)
- But all this our fisher, who was neither a poet, nor a dependent, did not know, so he concluded, that all who were truly great, were truly greatly minded, and noble in soul, as they were exalted by birth, and rich in splendour.
- 1823, Catherine George Ward, The Cottage on the Cliff: A Sea-side Story (page 251)
- French: grandement
- Italian: molto, grandemente, assai, oltremodo, parecchio, tanto, massimamente (archaic)
- Russian: си́льно
- Spanish: grandemente, enormemente, sobremanera
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