RICHLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does richly mean? 

• RICHLY (adverb)
  The adverb RICHLY has 3 senses:

1. to an ample degree or in an ample manner

2. in a rich manner

3. in a rich and lavish manner

  Familiarity information: RICHLY used as an adverb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RICHLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To an ample degree or in an ample manner

Synonyms:

amply; richly

Context example:

we benefited richly

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a rich manner

Synonyms:

high; luxuriously; richly

Context example:

he lives high

Pertainym:

rich (possessing material wealth)

Sense 3

Meaning:

In a rich and lavish manner

Synonyms:

extravagantly; lavishly; richly

Context example:

lavishly decorated

Pertainym:

rich (possessing material wealth)

 Context examples 

Then she went in to her mother and sister, and as she was so richly covered with gold, they gave her a warm welcome.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“If it were merely a fine house richly furnished,” said she, “I should not care about it myself; but the grounds are delightful. They have some of the finest woods in the country.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The richly supplied vascular nature of the nasal mucosa coupled with its high drug permeation makes the nasal route of administration attractive for many drugs, including proteins and peptides.

(Nasal Route of Administration, NCI Thesaurus)

You should have seen the dining-room that day—how richly it was decorated, how brilliantly lit up!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He was a dapper, brisk man, very richly clad, with a round, clean-shaven face, and very bright black eyes, which danced and sparkled with excitement.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For where, Fanny, shall we find a woman whom nature had so richly endowed?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

A richly vascularized and innervated connective tissue of mesodermal origin contained in the central cavity of a tooth and delimited by the dentin.

(Dental Pulp, NCI Thesaurus)

I must not quarrel with a spirit of forbearance which has been so richly extended towards myself; but, otherwise, I should loudly protest against the share of it which that woman has known.—'Jane,' indeed!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

As he spoke he opened a door and showed the way into a room which appeared to be very richly furnished, but again the only light was afforded by a single lamp half-turned down.

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

The bases of the mountains forming the gorge in which the little village lay, were richly green; and high above this gentler vegetation, grew forests of dark fir, cleaving the wintry snow-drift, wedge-like, and stemming the avalanche.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)