1 very:
highly successful / skilled / intelligent * highly competitive / critical / sensitive * It is highly unlikely that she'll be late.
2 at or to a high standard, level or amount:
highly trained / educated * a highly developed economy * a highly paid job
3 with admiration or praise:
His teachers think very highly of him (= have a very good opinion of him). * She speaks highly of you. * Her novels are very highly regarded.
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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 highly is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is highly a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, highly is tagged as adverb.
Does highly appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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