STEEPLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does steeply mean? 

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

1. in a steep manner

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• STEEPLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a steep manner

Context example:

the street rose steeply up to the castle

Pertainym:

steep (having a sharp inclination)

 Context examples 

The new health study by the Jama Network found that the overall number of cell phone-related neck and head injuries has increased “steeply” over the last 20 years.

(Mobile phone could cause physical pain, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It descends so steeply over the harbour that part of the bank has fallen away, and some of the graves have been destroyed.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A hundred yards ahead the path turned and sloped steeply into the main street.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

It was open, and led through a stone passage to a circular stairway, which went steeply down.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Making straight for the steep cliff, where the churchyard hangs over the laneway to the East Pier so steeply that some of the flat tombstones—thruff-steans or through-stones, as they call them in the Whitby vernacular—actually project over where the sustaining cliff has fallen away, it disappeared in the darkness, which seemed intensified just beyond the focus of the searchlight.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

We did not go fast, though the way was steeply downhill, for we had to take heavy rugs and wraps with us; we dared not face the possibility of being left without warmth in the cold and the snow.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)