highly

highly
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High is used as an adverb to mean ‘far up, aloft’ and in figurative uses in which allusion to physical height is the metaphor: Most surfaces were piled high with magazines / The junior executive is aiming high / Feelings were running high. Highly is used to mean (1) ‘very, extremely’ before adjectives and participial adjectives (It was highly amusing / a new wave of highly talented intellectuals), and (2) as an intensifier with verbs such as praise, speak, think, etc. when denoting favourable opinion (She spoke highly of her tutor / I think quite highly of the latest efforts). Note also the phrase high and low, as in He searched high and low for the lost ring.

Modern English usage. 2014.

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