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单词 highly
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highlyadverb

uk/ˈhaɪ.li/us/ˈhaɪ.li/

highly adverb (ABOVE AVERAGE)

B2 very, to a large degree, or at a high level:

a highly paid job
a highly profitable line of products
For our country to remain competitive, we need a highly-skilled, highly-educated workforce.
think/speak highly of sb

C2 to admire or say admiring things about someone:

He's very highly thought of within the company.

More examples

  • Tobacco is highly addictive.
  • The two men are highly suspicious of one another.
  • The hospital is unable to provide the highly specialized care needed by very sick babies.
  • The Birmingham Royal Ballet has had a highly successful season.
  • Nursing is a highly skilled job.

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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Praising and applauding

highly adverb (IMPORTANT)

in an important or influential (= having a lot of influence) position:

According to one highly placed source, the prime minister had threatened to resign over this issue.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Important people and describing important people

  • august
  • baron
  • be the cat's whiskers idiom
  • big fish/gun/noise/shot/wheel idiom
  • big hitter
  • fat cat
  • guest of honour
  • high up
  • high-level
  • high-powered
  • honcho
  • kingpin
  • mogul
  • of the moment idiom
  • personage
  • superior
  • superiority
  • the big boys
  • the bigger they are, the harder they fall idiom
  • the grand old man of sth idiom

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