greatly

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
12
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈɡɹeɪtli/

Definition of greatly

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. To a great extent or degree.
    “Expenses greatly exceeded revenues this year, much to nobody's surprise.”
    “He was more greatly beloved than anyone in living memory.”
    “I admire Elvis Presley greatly.”
    “There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs,[…], and all these articles[…] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.”
    “Terry's goal looked to have put Chelsea in control on the stroke of half-time but Arsenal's response presented a compelling case for Wenger's insistence that reports of his side's demise have been greatly exaggerated.”
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adv

  1. To a great extent or degree.
    “Expenses greatly exceeded revenues this year, much to nobody's surprise.”
    “He was more greatly beloved than anyone in living memory.”
    “I admire Elvis Presley greatly.”
    “There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs,[…], and all these articles[…] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.”
    “Terry's goal looked to have put Chelsea in control on the stroke of half-time but Arsenal's response presented a compelling case for Wenger's insistence that reports of his side's demise have been greatly exaggerated.”
  2. (archaic)Nobly; magnanimously.
    “His Suff’rings ſhine, and ſpread a Glory round him; Greatly unfortunate, he fights the Cauſe Of Honour, Virtue, Liberty, and Rome.”
    “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.”

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Etymology

From Middle English gretly, gretely, gretliche, greteliche, equivalent to great + -ly.

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