heavilyadv.

Brit.

/ˈhɛvᵻli/, U.S.

/ˈhɛvəli/

Forms: Old English hefiglíce, hefilíce, hefelíce, Middle English hefilike, heui(c)liche, Orm. hefiȝlike, Middle English hevyleche, Middle English–1500s hevely, hevyly, hevyli, Middle English Scottish hevaly, hewyly, Middle English–1500s havelie. 1500s hevily, Scottish hewilie, 1500s– heavily.

Etymology: Old English hefiglíce adverb, < hefig heavy adj.¹ and n.: see -ly suffix².

1. In a heavy manner; with or as with weight, literal and figurative; ponderously, massively; burdensomely, oppressively.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > properties of materials > weight or relative heaviness > [adverb]

heavyc1000

heavilyc1320

sadlya1400

ponderouslyc1500

lead-like1816

lumpishly1860

leadenly1879

the world > action or operation > adversity > [adverb] > oppressively

heavilyc1320

oppressingly1629

oppressively1773

compressively1834

c1320 Cast. Love 1671 I-charged with synne so hevyleche.

1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vii. 209 His fut he set Apon his man weill hevaly [1489 Adv. hewyly].

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 802 They did sound a long time upon Trumpets, Cornets, and Flutes, very heavily.

1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii.188 This..will light heavilier vpon you then you are aware.

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 268. ⁋2 A Gentleman leaning upon me, and very heavily.

1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville III. 150 The horses were too heavily laden to travel fast.

1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) IV. xvii. 57 On the great house of..Eadward his hand fell more heavily.

1886 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ By Woman's Wit I. vii. 207 Mrs. Ruthven did not find time hang heavily on her hands.

2. With heavy, laborious, or dragging movement; laboriously, sluggishly; without elasticity or animation.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > slowness of action or operation > [adverb]

lateeOE

latelyOE

heavilyc1000

hoolya1340

slowlyc1384

slowa1398

sluggedlyc1450

tarryingly1530

loiteringly1547

sluggishly1565

languishingly1579

limpingly1579

lingeringly1589

tarde1598

unnimbly1607

longsomelyc1610

tardilya1616

languidly1655

heavy1701

slack1854

snailishly1889

tharfly1894

pole pole1902

weedy-slow1921

the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > [adverb] > tardily or sluggishly

slacklyc960

latelyOE

heavilyc1000

hoolya1340

sluggedlyc1450

sluggishlyc1450

tarryingly1530

loiteringly1547

tediously1557

languishingly1579

limpingly1579

lingeringly1589

unnimbly1607

longsomelyc1610

tardilya1616

a-sluga1620

sluggingly1653

languidly1655

dilatorily1700

heavy1701

lagginglyc1817

laggardly1835

slack1854

slackly1884

logily1912

c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xiii. 15 Hig hefelice mid earum gehyrdon.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) iii. xvii. 63 The humour by nyghte meuyth heuyly.

1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) i. lix. 101/2 Yf the seruyce be sayd so hauenly [Pynson hauely] & dedely.

1611 Bible (King James) Exod. xiv. 25 And broke off their charet wheeles, that they draue them heauily .

1697 London Gaz. No. 3288/3 The..Fireship sailing very heavily.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 72. ⁋6 He read his Discourse..so heavily, and with so little Air of being convinced himself.

1761 J. Milles in Philos. Trans. 1760 (Royal Soc.) 51 538 Burn heavily, leaving a large quantity of brownish ashes.

1824 S. Ferrier Inheritance II. xxxv. 386 Breakfast passed very heavily.

1887 H. Erroll Ugly Duckling III. vii. 122 ‘I think I'll be off now’, said Lambert getting heavily up.

3. With sorrow, grief, displeasure, or anger; grievously. Obsolete or archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > [adverb]

wrothec950

heavilyc1000

sorrowlyOE

sorrilylOE

sorrowfullyc1225

dolefullyc1290

sadlya1375

teenfullya1375

wrothlyc1374

unwinlya1400

grievouslyc1400

unblithely1415

tristily?c1450

sad?a1475

sytefully1488

earnfully?1527

dolently1548

mournfully?1567

distressfully1593

passionately1604

tragicly1604

grievingly1623

distressedly1890

c1000 Ælfric Genesis xxi. 11 Abraham þa undernam hefiglice þas word.

c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. II. 26 Jesus..tok it hevely.

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Mark xiv. 4 There weren summe that beren it heuyli with ynne hem silf.

1483 Vulgaria abs Terencio (T. Rood & T. Hunte) sig. nviiv I fere me lest my fadyr bere heuyly that ȝisterday j com not to hym.

1591 E. Spenser Teares of Muses in Complaints sig. E3 [They] Hearing them so heauily lament, Like heauily lamenting from them went.

1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xiii. 340 Berkley took this refusal very heavily.

1777 E. Burke Corr. (1844) II. 169 Any mistake or neglect of mine is..heavily taken.

1816 Ld. Byron Siege of Corinth xix. 29 There he sate all heavily.

4. With great force or violence; forcibly, violently; intensely, deeply, strongly; severely.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > severity > [adverb]

heavilyc897

sharplyc900

hardeOE

sharpc1000

sorec1000

hardlyOE

etelichec1175

sorelyc1275

straita1300

sourc1300

grievously1303

drearilya1400

foullya1400

felly?c1400

snapelyc1420

durely1477

penallya1500

shrewlya1529

shrewdlyc1533

asperously1547

heinouslya1555

sensibly1613

instantly1638

shrowardly1664

severelya1682

atrociously1765

punishingly1839

the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [adverb] > with violence or force > extremely violently or forcibly

heavilyc897

spackly?c1335

rudelya1400

biglyc1400

thunderingly1680

c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xxiv. 179 Ða weras mon sceal hefiglecor and stiðlecor læran, and ða wif leohtlecor.

c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) xi. 53 Þa ongunnun..þa ægleawan hefilice him agen standan.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 8236 He wass..Biforr þe romanisshe king Full hefilike wreȝedd.

1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 235 It ranyt sa hard and hewyly.

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 114 Off Fortoun I complenit havalie.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. xcv^v Thei had been heuyly thretened for the tyme of his absence.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost i. ii. 142 Thou shalt be heauely punished.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Northampt. 298 Lately the Earl of Oxford was heavily fined.

1803 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (new ed.) ii. i. 187 Merchants..complain heavily of this inconvenience.

1876 J. R. Green Stray Stud. Eng. & Italy 223 The strong tendency to national unity told heavily against judicial inequality.

5. To a large or heavy amount.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb]

stronglyeOE

felec950

strongeOE

highlyOE

highOE

greatlya1200

stourlya1225

greata1325

dreec1330

deeplya1400

mightya1400

dreichlyc1400

mighty?a1425

sorec1440

mainlyc1450

greatumly1456

madc1487

profoundly1489

stronglya1492

muchwhata1513

shrewlya1529

heapa1547

vengeance?1548

sorely1562

smartlyc1580

mightly1582

mightily1587

violently1601

intensively1604

almightily1612

violent1629

seriously1643

intensely1646

importunately1660

shrewdly1664

gey1686

sadly1738

plenty1775

vitally1787

substantively1795

badly1813

far1814

heavily1819

serious1825

measurably1834

dearly1843

bally1939

majorly1955

sizzlingly1956

majorly1978

fecking1983

1819 Scotsman 30 Jan. 40/3 Oatmeal..sold heavily at fully more money.

1847 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 8 i. 64 Farm-yard manure is used heavily.

1850 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 11 ii. 613 I stock heavily.

1859 C. Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) II. 164 I have..corrected so heavily, as almost to have rewritten it.

1864 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 25 ii. 271 The county is heavily wooded.

Compounds

General attributive: often equivalent to parasynthetic combinations of the adjective, having heavy boots.

heavily-booted adj.

ΚΠ

1883 A. Thomas Mod. Housewife 131 Trodden by heavily-booted feet.

1883 R. Gower My Reminisc. II. 79 A large and heavily-veined nose.

1904 Westm. Gaz. 27 Aug. 6/2 This heavily-scented, image-laden atmosphere.

1905 Daily Chron. 20 Oct. 8/5 Those heavily-jetted waistbelts.

1906 Daily Chron. 11 June 5/2 A good deal of heavily-jewelled..speech.

1907 B. von Hutten Halo i. i Very long, half-closed, heavily-lashed eyes.

c1909 D. H. Lawrence Collier's Friday Night (1934) i. 9 Then he drags his heavily-shod feet to the door on right.

1927 A. Conan Doyle Case-bk. Sherlock Holmes xi. 293 A strong, heavily-moustached face and angry eyes.

1938 Daily Tel. 18 Jan. 6/3 As the heavily-policed funeral was marched down the street every window was flung open and red flowers showered down.

1961 B.S.I. News Feb. 6/1 Fast heavily-trafficked roads.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	heavily
释义	heavilyadv. Brit. /ˈhɛvᵻli/, U.S. /ˈhɛvəli/ Forms: Old English hefiglíce, hefilíce, hefelíce, Middle English hefilike, heui(c)liche, Orm. hefiȝlike, Middle English hevyleche, Middle English–1500s hevely, hevyly, hevyli, Middle English Scottish hevaly, hewyly, Middle English–1500s havelie. 1500s hevily, Scottish hewilie, 1500s– heavily. Etymology: Old English hefiglíce adverb, < hefig heavy adj.¹ and n.: see -ly suffix². 1. In a heavy manner; with or as with weight, literal and figurative; ponderously, massively; burdensomely, oppressively. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > weight or relative heaviness > [adverb] heavyc1000 heavilyc1320 sadlya1400 ponderouslyc1500 lead-like1816 lumpishly1860 leadenly1879 the world > action or operation > adversity > [adverb] > oppressively heavilyc1320 oppressingly1629 oppressively1773 compressively1834 c1320 Cast. Love 1671 I-charged with synne so hevyleche. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vii. 209 His fut he set Apon his man weill hevaly [1489 Adv. hewyly]. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 802 They did sound a long time upon Trumpets, Cornets, and Flutes, very heavily. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii.188 This..will light heavilier vpon you then you are aware. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 268. ⁋2 A Gentleman leaning upon me, and very heavily. 1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville III. 150 The horses were too heavily laden to travel fast. 1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) IV. xvii. 57 On the great house of..Eadward his hand fell more heavily. 1886 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ By Woman's Wit I. vii. 207 Mrs. Ruthven did not find time hang heavily on her hands. 2. With heavy, laborious, or dragging movement; laboriously, sluggishly; without elasticity or animation. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > slowness of action or operation > [adverb] lateeOE latelyOE heavilyc1000 hoolya1340 slowlyc1384 slowa1398 sluggedlyc1450 tarryingly1530 loiteringly1547 sluggishly1565 languishingly1579 limpingly1579 lingeringly1589 tarde1598 unnimbly1607 longsomelyc1610 tardilya1616 languidly1655 heavy1701 slack1854 snailishly1889 tharfly1894 pole pole1902 weedy-slow1921 the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > [adverb] > tardily or sluggishly slacklyc960 latelyOE heavilyc1000 hoolya1340 sluggedlyc1450 sluggishlyc1450 tarryingly1530 loiteringly1547 tediously1557 languishingly1579 limpingly1579 lingeringly1589 unnimbly1607 longsomelyc1610 tardilya1616 a-sluga1620 sluggingly1653 languidly1655 dilatorily1700 heavy1701 lagginglyc1817 laggardly1835 slack1854 slackly1884 logily1912 c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xiii. 15 Hig hefelice mid earum gehyrdon. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) iii. xvii. 63 The humour by nyghte meuyth heuyly. 1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) i. lix. 101/2 Yf the seruyce be sayd so hauenly [Pynson hauely] & dedely. 1611 Bible (King James) Exod. xiv. 25 And broke off their charet wheeles, that they draue them heauily . View more context for this quotation 1697 London Gaz. No. 3288/3 The..Fireship sailing very heavily. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 72. ⁋6 He read his Discourse..so heavily, and with so little Air of being convinced himself. 1761 J. Milles in Philos. Trans. 1760 (Royal Soc.) 51 538 Burn heavily, leaving a large quantity of brownish ashes. 1824 S. Ferrier Inheritance II. xxxv. 386 Breakfast passed very heavily. 1887 H. Erroll Ugly Duckling III. vii. 122 ‘I think I'll be off now’, said Lambert getting heavily up. 3. With sorrow, grief, displeasure, or anger; grievously. Obsolete or archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > [adverb] wrothec950 heavilyc1000 sorrowlyOE sorrilylOE sorrowfullyc1225 dolefullyc1290 sadlya1375 teenfullya1375 wrothlyc1374 unwinlya1400 grievouslyc1400 unblithely1415 tristily?c1450 sad?a1475 sytefully1488 earnfully?1527 dolently1548 mournfully?1567 distressfully1593 passionately1604 tragicly1604 grievingly1623 distressedly1890 c1000 Ælfric Genesis xxi. 11 Abraham þa undernam hefiglice þas word. c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. II. 26 Jesus..tok it hevely. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Mark xiv. 4 There weren summe that beren it heuyli with ynne hem silf. 1483 Vulgaria abs Terencio (T. Rood & T. Hunte) sig. nviiv I fere me lest my fadyr bere heuyly that ȝisterday j com not to hym. 1591 E. Spenser Teares of Muses in Complaints sig. E3 [They] Hearing them so heauily lament, Like heauily lamenting from them went. 1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xiii. 340 Berkley took this refusal very heavily. 1777 E. Burke Corr. (1844) II. 169 Any mistake or neglect of mine is..heavily taken. 1816 Ld. Byron Siege of Corinth xix. 29 There he sate all heavily. 4. With great force or violence; forcibly, violently; intensely, deeply, strongly; severely. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > severity > [adverb] heavilyc897 sharplyc900 hardeOE sharpc1000 sorec1000 hardlyOE etelichec1175 sorelyc1275 straita1300 sourc1300 grievously1303 drearilya1400 foullya1400 felly?c1400 snapelyc1420 durely1477 penallya1500 shrewlya1529 shrewdlyc1533 asperously1547 heinouslya1555 sensibly1613 instantly1638 shrowardly1664 severelya1682 atrociously1765 punishingly1839 the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [adverb] > with violence or force > extremely violently or forcibly heavilyc897 spackly?c1335 rudelya1400 biglyc1400 thunderingly1680 c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xxiv. 179 Ða weras mon sceal hefiglecor and stiðlecor læran, and ða wif leohtlecor. c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) xi. 53 Þa ongunnun..þa ægleawan hefilice him agen standan. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 8236 He wass..Biforr þe romanisshe king Full hefilike wreȝedd. 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 235 It ranyt sa hard and hewyly. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 114 Off Fortoun I complenit havalie. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. xcv^v Thei had been heuyly thretened for the tyme of his absence. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost i. ii. 142 Thou shalt be heauely punished. View more context for this quotation a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Northampt. 298 Lately the Earl of Oxford was heavily fined. 1803 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (new ed.) ii. i. 187 Merchants..complain heavily of this inconvenience. 1876 J. R. Green Stray Stud. Eng. & Italy 223 The strong tendency to national unity told heavily against judicial inequality. 5. To a large or heavy amount. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] stronglyeOE felec950 strongeOE highlyOE highOE greatlya1200 stourlya1225 greata1325 dreec1330 deeplya1400 mightya1400 dreichlyc1400 mighty?a1425 sorec1440 mainlyc1450 greatumly1456 madc1487 profoundly1489 stronglya1492 muchwhata1513 shrewlya1529 heapa1547 vengeance?1548 sorely1562 smartlyc1580 mightly1582 mightily1587 violently1601 intensively1604 almightily1612 violent1629 seriously1643 intensely1646 importunately1660 shrewdly1664 gey1686 sadly1738 plenty1775 vitally1787 substantively1795 badly1813 far1814 heavily1819 serious1825 measurably1834 dearly1843 bally1939 majorly1955 sizzlingly1956 majorly1978 fecking1983 1819 Scotsman 30 Jan. 40/3 Oatmeal..sold heavily at fully more money. 1847 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 8 i. 64 Farm-yard manure is used heavily. 1850 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 11 ii. 613 I stock heavily. 1859 C. Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) II. 164 I have..corrected so heavily, as almost to have rewritten it. 1864 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 25 ii. 271 The county is heavily wooded. Compounds General attributive: often equivalent to parasynthetic combinations of the adjective, having heavy boots. heavily-booted adj. ΚΠ 1883 A. Thomas Mod. Housewife 131 Trodden by heavily-booted feet. 1883 R. Gower My Reminisc. II. 79 A large and heavily-veined nose. 1904 Westm. Gaz. 27 Aug. 6/2 This heavily-scented, image-laden atmosphere. 1905 Daily Chron. 20 Oct. 8/5 Those heavily-jetted waistbelts. 1906 Daily Chron. 11 June 5/2 A good deal of heavily-jewelled..speech. 1907 B. von Hutten Halo i. i Very long, half-closed, heavily-lashed eyes. c1909 D. H. Lawrence Collier's Friday Night (1934) i. 9 Then he drags his heavily-shod feet to the door on right. 1927 A. Conan Doyle Case-bk. Sherlock Holmes xi. 293 A strong, heavily-moustached face and angry eyes. 1938 Daily Tel. 18 Jan. 6/3 As the heavily-policed funeral was marched down the street every window was flung open and red flowers showered down. 1961 B.S.I. News Feb. 6/1 Fast heavily-trafficked roads. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.c897
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