Meaning of highly in English

highly

adverb

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highly adverb (ABOVE AVERAGE)

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very, to a large degree, or at a high level:

highly paid She was offered a highly paid job in finance.

a highly profitable line of products

For our country to remain competitive, we need a highly-skilled, highly-educated workforce.

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Tobacco is highly addictive.
The two men are highly suspicious of one another.
The hospital is unable to provide the highly specialized care needed by very sick babies.
The Birmingham Royal Ballet has had a highly successful season.
Nursing is a highly skilled job.

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highly adverb (SHOWING ADMIRATION)

in a way that shows admiration and respect:

think highly of Her colleagues think very highly of her work.

highly thought of He's very highly thought of within the company.

speak highly of Many people speak highly of Haines.

His supervisor spoke highly of his patience and dedication.

highly regarded These women are highly regarded in their local communities.

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Praising and applauding

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highly adverb (IMPORTANT)

in an important or influential (= having a lot of influence) position:

highly placed According to one highly placed source, the prime minister had threatened to resign over this issue.

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Important people and describing important people

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(Definition of highly from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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highly

adverb

/ˈhɑɪ·li/

highly adverb (AT HIGH LEVEL)

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very, to a large degree, or at a high level:

a highly paid job

We need a highly skilled, highly educated workforce.

highly adverb (IN IMPORTANT POSITION)

in an important or influential position:

The statement was made by a highly placed official.

(Definition of highly from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

highly | Business English

highly

adverb

/ˈhaɪli/ us

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very, to a large degree, or at a high level:

The firm was highly profitable and had a strong balance sheet.

It is an able, young and highly motivated workforce.

highly educated/qualified/skilled Technical experts, highly trained chemists, engineers, technicians and operators help ensure that all the company's facilities meet high standards of safety.

in a position that is important or that has a lot of influence:

One highly-placed source said that a wide range of bids had gone in.

(Definition of highly from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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The purpose and content of the interventions in these studies were highly diverse.

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The dynamic model of one leg, as considered here, is highly nonlinear and time variant.

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Highly robust software is also required to integrate, process, display, and communicate such data.

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Indeed, the subject herself often finds the experience highly desirable.

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The use of a highly sensitive electrophoretic method to compare the proteinases of trichomonads.

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The individual vibrational modes of a complex molecule such as a protein can of course be highly anharmonic.

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The structure of the a-lactalbumin molten globule and denatured states are highly heterogeneous.

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The two sets of values thus obtained are highly correlated ; r=0.991.

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However, their content and conduct is highly contentious and discussion is problematised.

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Boundary condition (9b) has a similar character for the magnetic field except that the highly conducting surface is in direct contact with the fluid.

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The grid points are highly packed in the region near the reversed-shear surface to enhance the resolution on the reconnection sites.

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At the given high laser intensity, the laser wakefield is highly broken and a bubble structure is formed.

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In terms of effectiveness the line manager had no hesitation in stating that the post is highly cost effective.

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All in all, we find plausible and highly significant coefficients for most explanatory variables.

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Thus, dose affects morbidity only through its effects on the timing and\or magnitude of peak parasite density (or variables highly correlated to these).

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in Chinese (Traditional)

超過平均水準, 非常，極其, 重要…

Meaning of highly in English

highly adverb (ABOVE AVERAGE)

highly adverb (SHOWING ADMIRATION)

highly adverb (IMPORTANT)

highly | American Dictionary

highly adverb (AT HIGH LEVEL)

highly adverb (IN IMPORTANT POSITION)

highly | Business English

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