greatly

advérbio

1. 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.

2. 2

   arcaicoNobly; 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.

Formas

comparativo

more greatly, greater, greatlier

superlativo

most greatly, greatest, greatliest