deeplyadverb
uk/ˈdiːp.li/us/ˈdiːp.li/B2 extremely or strongly:
I'm deeply grateful to you.
He found her comments deeply irritating/offensive.
We don't want to get too deeply involved with these people.
After 20 years of marriage, they're still deeply in love.
More examples
- The news of the accident shocked the family deeply.
- She sighed deeply and sat down.
- The radiant smile and the sparkle in her blue eyes were the clear signs of a woman still deeply in love.
- The instructor told us to breathe in deeply and then breathe out slowly.
- He was deeply wounded by her fierce criticism.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Linguistics: very & extreme
- abject
- awful
- badly
- beyond
- classic
- classical
- devastating
- drop dead! idiom
- eminently
- esp
- especially
- heartily
- impossibly
- perfect
- sheer
- specially
- supremely
- thoroughly
- whole
- wide
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