dearlyadverb
uk/ˈdɪə.li/us/ˈdɪr.li/dearly adverb (A LOT)
very much:
She will be dearly missed by her family and friends.
We would dearly love to sell our house and move to France.
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Linguistics: very & extreme
- abject
- awful
- beyond
- classic
- classical
- deadly
- devastating
- drop dead! idiom
- eminently
- esp
- especially
- heartily
- impossibly
- perfect
- sheer
- specially
- supremely
- thoroughly
- whole
- wide
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dearly adverb (COSTING A LOT)
in a way that is expensive:
dearly priced
pay dearly
to suffer a lot as a result of a particular action or event:
If you refuse to cooperate with us, you will pay dearly for it.
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Costing too much
- break
- capital intensive
- cheap
- cost
- cost an arm and a leg/a small fortune idiom
- costly
- daylight robbery
- highway robbery
- knock
- knock sb back (sth)
- money pit
- not come cheap idiom
- odds
- over the odds idiom
- overcharge
- pretty
- set sb back (sth)
- steep
- stiff
- usury
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