SOLIDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does solidly mean? 

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

1. as an undiversified whole

2. with strength and soundness

  Familiarity information: SOLIDLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOLIDLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

As an undiversified whole

Context example:

the unions voted solidly for Roosevelt

Pertainym:

solid (acting together as a single undiversified whole)

Sense 2

Meaning:

With strength and soundness

Context example:

a solidly built house

Pertainym:

solid (of good quality and condition; solidly built)

 Context examples 

The Belgian Tervuren is a slender dog, squarely proportioned and solidly muscled, but not bulky.

(Belgian Tervuren, NCI Thesaurus)

Ahem, we’ll discuss that later, he smiled, as a bullet struck solidly into the cabin wall.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

They were coated solidly with ice, and the two men kept them on the run around the fire, sweating and thawing, so close that they were singed by the flames.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The Antarctic glaciers studied by Rignot's group have thinned so much they are now floating above places where they used to sit solidly on land, which means their grounding lines are retreating inland.

(West Antarctic Glacier loss appears unstoppable, NASA)

If not, the meat freezes so solidly as to turn the edge of the sharpest knife, and a three-hundred-pound bear, frozen stiff, is no easy thing to put upon a sled and haul over the rough ice.

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

Elinor could NOT remember it;—but her mother, without waiting for her assent, continued, And his manners, the Colonel's manners are not only more pleasing to me than Willoughby's ever were, but they are of a kind I well know to be more solidly attaching to Marianne.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)