MIGHTILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mightily mean? 

• MIGHTILY (adverb)
  The adverb MIGHTILY has 2 senses:

1. powerfully or vigorously

2. (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree

  Familiarity information: MIGHTILY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIGHTILY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Powerfully or vigorously

Context example:

he strove mightily to achieve a better position in life

Sense 2

Meaning:

(Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree

Synonyms:

mightily; mighty; powerful; right

Context example:

they rejoiced mightily

Domain usage:

intensifier; intensive (a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies)

 Context examples 

Their business was to toil, and toil mightily, in the traces.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

This seemed mightily to relieve him.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

This served as a relish, and his hunger increased mightily; but he was too old in the world to forget his caution.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Jo looked at her friend as if she did not understand him, then began to laugh as if mightily amused at something.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I was mightily refreshed by the beverage; as much so as a giant with wine: it gave new tone to my unstrung nerves, and enabled me to address this penetrating young judge steadily.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

My aunt was mightily amused, when we began to talk composedly, by my account of my meeting with Mr. Chillip, and of his holding her in such dread remembrance; and both she and Peggotty had a great deal to say about my poor mother's second husband, and that murdering woman of a sister,—on whom I think no pain or penalty would have induced my aunt to bestow any Christian or Proper Name, or any other designation.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

About midnight in they came, dancing and skipping, hopped round the room, and then went to sit down to their work as usual; but when they saw the clothes lying for them, they laughed and chuckled, and seemed mightily delighted.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

And yet here are two gentlemen stuck up in it mightily at their ease, and looking about them at the rocks and mountains, as if they were not to be upset the next moment, which they certainly must be.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

He paused discreetly at a distance when Brooke disappeared, but he could both see and hear, and being a bachelor, enjoyed the prospect mightily.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Of my aunt and Miss Clarissa remaining with us; and our walking in the garden; and my aunt, who has made quite a speech at breakfast touching Dora's aunts, being mightily amused with herself, but a little proud of it too.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)