[ UK /hˈa‍ɪli/ ]
[ US /ˈhaɪɫi/ ]
ADVERB
  1. at a high rate or wage
    highly paid workers
  2. to a high degree or extent; favorably or with much respect
    He spoke highly of her
    extremely interesting
    does not think highly of his writing
    highly successful
  3. in a high position or level or rank
    details known by only a few highly placed persons
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How To Use highly In A Sentence

  • There will always be debate about who deserves honours, all of it highly subjective.
  • Humus being highly colloidal, has the ability to adsorb and retain for future plant use many of the ions such as calcium, magnesium, potassium, phosphates and ammonia which might be leached from the soil and lost in drainage.
  • Many of us are highly educated and your presumptions are most insulting.
  • He was an exceedingly capable and highly regarded individual. Times, Sunday Times
  • I can't commend the players highly enough. The Sun
  • The development of innovative new technologies and highly specific, nonradioactive labels has changed all of that. The Scientist
  • Smith enforced a highly unpopular no-guns policy in the cowtown, and for the most part, made the law stick by beating the hell out of people with his bare hands. The Four Toughest Men of the Old West
  • ‘I'm sure the retained men are not valued as highly but they work 12 hours and then are on call - if those bleepers go then they have to race to the station, perhaps to save someone's life,’ he said.
  • The highly textured surface of these poems does not, however, obscure the continuous emotional undercurrent.
  • Their preferences ultimately shaped the place of worship that Warren built, and the result of that consumer-driven approach to creating Saddleback is a deliberately contemporary, highly professionalized operation with a carefully orchestrated feel-good atmosphere. American Grace
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