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UK
/ɡɹˈeɪtli/
]
[ US /ˈɡɹeɪtɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɹeɪtɫi/ ]
ADVERB
-
to an extraordinary extent or degree
he improved greatly
How To Use greatly In A Sentence
- She suffered greatly while she was alive, so let us hope her soul is now at peace.
- Brother Jonathan," then just published by Blackwood in three large volumes, was read to him every night for weeks, and greatly to his satisfaction, as I then understood; though it seems by what Dr. Bowring -- I beg his pardon, Sir John Bowring -- says on the subject, that the "white-haired sage" was wide enough awake, on the whole, to form a pretty fair estimate of its unnaturalness and extravagance: being himself a great admirer of Richardson's ten-volume stories, like The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865
- ‘Members consider that their privacy will be greatly reduced and that the height of the projection, which is some 17 metres to the ridge height and two floors above the roof line of the club, is unneighbourly,’ he said.
- Some find it repugnant, others see them as casualties in an undeclared war that is greatly preferable to the alternative of full-scale conflict. Times, Sunday Times
- Their support was greatly appreciated and all within the club are grateful for their help and co-operation.
- Application forms vary greatly in layout and length.
- We were greatly relieved at the the news of their safe return.
- In this high opinion of his own rank, he was greatly fortified by his ideas of the military profession, which, in his phrase, made a valiant cavalier a camarade to an emperor. A Legend of Montrose
- Of course what is small will inevitably vary greatly according to the circumstances and to say that a curtilage is a small area is obviously not to provide any precise test of identification.
- Of course they spoke of their brew as if it were a medicinal cure-all when in reality they produced highly refined and greatly prized moonshine.