1 very much:
She loves him dearly. * I would dearly like / love to know what he was thinking. * dearly beloved (= used by a minister at a Christian church service to address people)
2 in a way that causes a lot of suffering or damage, or that costs a lot of money:
Success has cost him dearly. * She paid dearly for her mistake.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for dearly is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is dearly a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, dearly is tagged as adverb.
Does dearly appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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