different between greatly vs abundantly

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???e?tli/

Adverb

greatly (comparative greatlier or greater or more greatly, superlative greatliest or greatest or most greatly)

1. To a great extent or degree.

   Synonyms: very, drastically

2. (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.

Synonyms

• above a bit (Chester)

Translations

Anagrams

• lytarge

English

Etymology

From Middle English abundantly, abundauntli, habundantly, habundauntliche, equivalent to abundant +? -ly.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??b?n.dn?t.li/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??b?n.dn?t.li/, /??bn?.dn?t.li/

Adverb

abundantly (comparative more abundantly, superlative most abundantly)

1. In an abundant manner; in a sufficient degree; in large measure. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

   Synonyms: fully, amply, plentifully

   • Genesis, I, 20

     And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
2. Extremely.
   • 1980, Claude Emerson Welch, Anatomy of Rebellion

     The explosion, in other words, was unexpected, powerful, and politically diffuse; it vented sharp African frustrations with the colonial situation, but had no readily visible leadership or political goals; it made abundantly obvious the need to speed the pace of self-government

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References

• abundantly in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• abundantly in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.