adj
Meaning 1
Well, in good health.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, predicative
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
purely
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpjʊəli/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpjɔːli/
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General-American: /ˈpjʊɹli/
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rhymes with -ʊə(ɹ)li
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rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)li
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CMU ARPABET: P Y UH1 R L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adv
Meaning 2
Wholly; really, completely.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, regional
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: thoroughly, totally, absolutely, all-out, tout à fait, all the way, blind, altogether, at large, at length, cap-a-pie, categorically, completely, detailly, downright, entirely, exhaustively, finally, first and last, flat-out, flat out, from aardvark to zymurgy, from A to Z, from head to toe, from soup to nuts, from stem to stern, from the rooter to the tooter, from top to bottom, from top to toe, fully, handsomely, heartily, head to foot, head to tail, head to toe, hook, line, and sinker, in detail, in full, lock, stock, and barrel, one hundred percent, out-and-out, out and out, outright, particularly, perfectly, plumb, properly, purely, quite, right, root and branch, soundly, soup-to-nuts, straight up, through and through, top to tail, top to toe, totes, to the bone, to the core, to the full, utterly, well and truly, whole, whole cloth, wholly
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Meaning 3
Solely; exclusively; merely, simply.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: alone, entirely, exclusively, expressly, merely, only, purely, solely, wholly
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Meaning 4
Chastely, innocently; in a sinless manner, without fault.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: guiltlessly, morally, sinlessly, blamelessly, cleanly, innocently, irreprehensibly, purely, unblameably, unblamefully, becomingly, chastely, continently, correctly, decently, decorously, deservingly, dutifully, duteously, meritoriously, modestly, nobly, rightly, right-mindedly, righteously, virtuously, worthily
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Meaning 5
Without physical adulterants; refinedly, with no admixture.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pristinely, unadulteratedly, undilutedly
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 6
restricted to something
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- we talked strictly business
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: strictly
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From pure + -ly.
From Middle English purely, equivalent to pure + -ly.
Across languages
Translations
1 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Spanish: puramente — Translations