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adv
Completely and entirely; to the fullest extent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Completely and entirely; to the fullest extent.
Very; to a great extent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, excessive, informal, not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Exclusively and solely.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly')
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: entirely, completely, totally, all, altogether, whole
Antonyms: partly
History
From Middle English holly, holeliche, holliche (also as halely, hallich, etc.). Doublet of earlier holy. By surface analysis, whol(e) + -ly.
