highly
Use Highly in a sentence
li adverb
1.
in or to a high degree; extremely: highly amusing; highly seasoned food.
2.
with high appreciation or praise; admiringly: to speak highly of a person.
3.
more than adequately; generously: a highly paid consultant.
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| —adv | |
| 1. | (intensifier): highly pleased; highly disappointed |
| 2. | with great approbation or favour: we spoke highly of it |
| 3. | in a high position: placed highly in class |
| 4. | at or for a high price or cost |
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Highly
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
Slang Dictionary
highly
adv. [scientific computation] The preferred modifier for overstating an understatement. As in: `highly nonoptimal', the worst possible way to do something; `highly nontrivial', either impossible or requiring a major research project; `highly nonlinear', completely erratic and unpredictable; `highly nontechnical', drivel written for lusers, oversimplified to the point of being misleading or incorrect (compare drool-proof paper). In other computing cultures, postfixing of in the extreme might be preferred.
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Example sentences
Highly creative people often seem weirder than the rest of us.
The shape, as well as the breadth and length of the ramus of the lower jaw, varies in a highly remarkable manner.
These hearty, highly addictive pancakes are an ideal start to an active day.
Modern jet airplanes are designed with highly redundant systems, which make accidents highly improbable.
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