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View synonyms for strongly

strongly

[ strawng-lee, strong ]

adverb

  1. with great strength or force:

    wind blowing strongly from the west.

  2. in strong or convincing words:

    We strongly urged him to go.

  3. with intensity; to a high degree:

    It was strongly suspected that he had been fired.

  4. having a strong effect:

    to taste strongly of vinegar.

  5. in a firm, solid, or secure manner:

    a strongly fortified hill.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of strongly1

First recorded before 1000; strong ( def ) + -ly ( def )

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Example Sentences

I connect strongly with his concept of making medicine that is both useful for public health and conducive to building a successful company.

From Fortune

The part of the document that Pierik disputes strongly suggests that Assemblyman Todd Gloria, who’s running for mayor, knew what was going on.

Their chapter was almost like an ethnography about this group of parents in New York that felt really strongly about the fact that they didn’t want their kids to be surveilled.

The study quotes Google’s Gary Illyes who said, “If you were paying attention to actually writing for your users instead of machines, then I strongly believe that you are already optimized for voice search.”

The model might use these data sets to spit out a list of voters ranked on a scale from 1 to 100, with 100 being those most likely to strongly support the cause.

But even there I wonder if the Cuban vote in Florida, even the Republican Cuban vote, is going to be strongly against this.

“We know the outbreak is still flaming strongly in western Sierra Leone and some parts of the interior of Guinea,” said Nabarro.

The Syrian-American residents of one Pennsylvania city disagree—strongly.

Unsurprisingly, many religious believers most strongly saw these events as happening for reasons according to a plan.

And so how is it that Rousseff still managed to eek out a win, when both media coverage and investors strongly were against her?

In this case, I suspect, there was co-operant a strongly marked childish characteristic, the love of producing an effect.

The hum of earnest or glad voices here contrasted strongly with silence and meditation there.

The sensation she had communicated to him then she communicated again, this time perhaps more strongly.

Blood-streaked sputum is strongly suggestive of tuberculosis, and is more common in the early stages than later.

He has felt strongly, and he was feeling strongly now; he was feeling passionately—that was my whole contention.

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