GREATLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does greatly mean? 

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

1. to an extraordinary extent or degree

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREATLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To an extraordinary extent or degree

Context example:

he improved greatly

Pertainym:

great (remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect)

 Context examples 

"She made believe to me that she had dared greatly, and all the while she knew the brother that brought her was waiting to take her back."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

At this time, you will be moved and greatly touched emotionally to see it materialize.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

In an instant the three of us had torn them away from him, and Holmes staggered to his feet, very pale and evidently greatly exhausted.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I, too, go on and on, because I am strong on the trail and because I am greatly paid.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The Duke is greatly agitated, and, as to me, you have seen yourselves the state of nervous prostration to which the suspense and the responsibility have reduced me.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you will please take away the pole I shall be greatly obliged to you.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

In that respect his friend had greatly the advantage.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

With this introduction (which greatly affected him), Mr. Micawber placed his I.O.U. in the hands of Traddles, and said he wished him well in every relation of life.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

To remedy this, he ate as fast as they; and, so greatly did hunger compel him, he was not above taking what did not belong to him.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He looked wild-eyed and haggard, and I greatly fear his reason has given way.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)