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.
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- 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.
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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.
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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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