1 slightly; not very much:
mildly surprised / irritated / interested * Those figures are mildly encouraging, but we need faster progress.
2 in a gentle manner:
'I didn't mean to upset you' he said mildly.
IDIOMS
to put it mildly (spoken) used to show that what you are talking about is much more extreme, etc. than your words suggest:
The result was unfortunate, to put it mildly (= it was extremely unfortunate). * To say I'm disgusted is putting it mildly.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for mildly is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is mildly a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, mildly is tagged as adverb.
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