EXCELLENTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does excellently mean? 

• EXCELLENTLY (adverb)
  The adverb EXCELLENTLY has 1 sense:

1. extremely well

  Familiarity information: EXCELLENTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXCELLENTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extremely well

Synonyms:

excellently; famously; magnificently; splendidly

Context example:

we got along famously

Pertainym:

excellent (very good; of the highest quality)

 Context examples 

"Indeed," I said, "you speak excellently."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Our young friend here and you have done most excellently well.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Amy is left for him, and they would suit excellently, but I have no heart for such things, now. I don't care what becomes of anybody but you, Beth. You must get well."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Coffee, without cream or milk, he had twice a day, in the evening substituting tea; but both coffee and tea were excellently cooked.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I had heard of jerking beef on the plains, and our seal-meat, cut in thin strips and hung in the smoke, cured excellently.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The varieties in the fitting-up of the rooms, where the common necessaries provided by the owner, in the common indifferent plight, were contrasted with some few articles of a rare species of wood, excellently worked up, and with something curious and valuable from all the distant countries Captain Harville had visited, were more than amusing to Anne; connected as it all was with his profession, the fruit of its labours, the effect of its influence on his habits, the picture of repose and domestic happiness it presented, made it to her a something more, or less, than gratification.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Excellently contrived, upon my word.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

You did excellently well.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was kept, to be sure, rather cross and crusty; but on the whole I could see he was excellently entertained, and that a lamb-like submission and turtle-dove sensibility, while fostering his despotism more, would have pleased his judgment, satisfied his common-sense, and even suited his taste less.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

We go excellently well together.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)