greatly

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   to an extraordinary extent or degree

   With practice, their performance improved greatly.

2. 2
   adv

   To a great extent or degree.

   Expenses greatly exceeded revenues this year, much to nobody's surprise.

3. 3
   adv

   Nobly; magnanimously.

   His Suff’rings ſhine, and ſpread a Glory round him; Greatly unfortunate, he fights the Cauſe Of Honour, Virtue, Liberty, and Rome.

Etymology

From Middle English gretly, gretely, gretliche, greteliche, equivalent to great + -ly.