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highly Adverb

— very The two ideas are highly connected. — If someone is highly qualified, skilled, or educated, they have a lot of skill or knowledge. The school has many highly qualified teachers. — If someone is highly placed, they have a lot of power. — If you think highly of someone or something, you think they're very good. He became manager because everyone thought very highly of him.

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— adverb (= extremely) to a high degree or extent; favorably or with much respect highly successful He spoke highly of her does not think highly of his writing extremely interesting — adverb in a high position or level or rank details known by only a few highly placed persons — adverb at a high rate or wage highly paid workers

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highly English » English

very extremely very much greatly much quite notably high well keenly fairly especially widely vast tall specifically specially spacious sorely seperately right remarkably readily rather quickly pretty passing particularly notedly most mighty mickle majestically lots loftily largely large kindly intensely honourably high-ranking great good generously fine favourably favorably far extraordinarily exceptionally

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Simple sentences

I know that it is highly unlikely that anyone knows me.

I think it's highly unlikely that I'll ever see my stolen motorcycle again.

Tom is a highly sensitive child.

I highly recommend watching this movie.

Tom isn't highly regarded among his colleagues.

Mr Ito is a highly educated man.

Artists are highly respected in France.

Chess is a highly intellectual game.

We cannot praise him highly enough for this.

I think highly of him.

I am highly honored by the presence of the president.

Japan is highly competitive in high technology industries.

His designs are highly original.

His story is highly colored.

His story was highly amusing to us.

Her new novel has been highly praised.

This is a highly recommended restaurant.

Mr. Ito is a highly educated man.

You should always think highly of your own teachers.

Your conclusion is highly arguable.

Everybody speaks very highly of Ando.

Our personnel are very highly educated.

She thinks highly of him.

Foot-and-mouth disease is highly contagious.

Geoffrey, a highly advantaged student at a private college, bought a motorcycle and vanished with it.

Antimatter is highly unstable.

I know that it is highly unlikely that you'd ever want to go out with me, but I still need to ask at least once.

I think it's highly unlikely that we'll be able to escape from this prison.

I think it's highly unlikely that Tom will ever be satisfied.

Movie subtitles

OutwardIy it was very impressive, but on the inside it was highly fragile.

If we don't find that, the chance of finding these tall, elegant, grey, ET guys is gonna be highly diminished.

Highly flammable.

He speaks highly of you.

He spoke highly of Declan too, but we won't hold that against him.

I think that's highly unlikely.

Karl Victor V. Sendlingen, the highly esteemed and much belover president of his home town. returns from a prolonged absence and is welcomed at the station by Vice-president Werner. who was served as deputy in his absence.

It is a fact that you have been away from work without an excused absence, that you have frequented and behaved scandalously in questionable taverns and further, that you have harassed highly esteemed citizens of the community.

I feel highly honored, but I'm afraid I'm not much of a speech maker.

You rate yourself highly, my child.

War can be a highly stimulating thing.

The Marshal commended our work far too highly.

And there's the highly contagious disease.

The public prosecutor is highly displeased.

If they were trying to keep it a secret, then it's highly likely that they've built a basement.

My friends, I'm highly gratified of this display of effusion.

I shall recommend you highly.

He also wanted a highly-trained and consummate actor, who would be able to give extra dimensions to what might be regarded as merely a highly-charged, melodramatic role.

This little fellow is highly privileged. Why, dear!

Our valley is very rich in a metal called gold which, fortunately for us, is valued very highly in the outside world.

Indeed, in connection with your case the name of a highly respectable personality did emerge, an officer in Her Majesty's regiment of New South Wales.

Wish I could tell him, but that would be highly irregular.

I might add that for sometime, Sir Charles was in a highly nervous state. Worried.

And I hereby decree that until what time if any, that I return the Scarecrow, by virtue of his highly superior brains shall rule in my stead assisted by the Tin Man, by virtue of his magnificent heart and the Lion, by virtue of his courage.

You've been with us a long time. and we've been highly satisfied with you.

She's highly strung.

Highly talented.

Highly.

This is a highly irregular procedure.

That's highly commendable, Harry.

And so it came to Ianto and Davy, the best workers in the colliery, but too highly paid to compete with poorer, more desperate men.

You go forth from here highly accomplished pilots.

I gather he thinks pretty highly of you, son.

It may seem a little unusual. but your mistress is inclined to be rather highly strung.

They were given to her. by somebody very highly placed.

The illness is highly infectious.

But I'm pressed for time, and I regard you very highly, so I'll make you an offer.

News and current affairs

Iran proclaims that its programs are for peaceful generation of nuclear energy, but inspectors have already found traces of highly enriched weapons-grade uranium.

The more than 20 bilateral and multilateral donor agencies for agriculture are highly fragmented and of insufficient scale individually and collectively.

The bad news is that it has become increasingly clear that, at least for large countries, currency areas will be highly unstable unless they follow national borders.

And, as we have seen in many countries' efforts to ameliorate the crisis, the non-cooperative protectionist response is much more likely to be adopted - despite wide recognition that it is highly destructive - when aggregate demand is in short supply.

The EU would benefit as well, by contributing to the stabilization of a highly volatile area.

Pragmatic and highly intelligent, sooner or later every issue receives the full attention of his forensic curiosity.

By contrast, rebelling against one's parents' generation and rediscovering traditional moral stances will save France - a message that is highly applicable to issues, such as education and immigration, that may dominate the electoral campaign.

LONDON - Even after the passage of new financial regulations in the United States, the Dodd-Frank Act, and the publication of the Basel Committee's new capital requirements, the financial sector's prospects over the next few years remain highly uncertain.

He set up a highly profitable arms trading company. Soon he became one of the country's richest tycoons.

Borrowing costs are rising for highly indebted sovereigns, credit rationing is undermining small and medium-size companies, and falling commodity prices are reducing exporting countries' income.

Therefore they signaled the start of a new program, immediately dubbed the Cologne Initiative, to reduce further the debt burden of the so-called Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs).

But, while this scenario has a certain ring of truth, surely any breakup would be highly traumatic, with the euro diving before its rump form recovered.

It is highly unlikely that the US will react after Iraq as it did after Vietnam.

The differences between the candidates are considerable, and highly consequential for American economic policy and the global economy, although enactment of their programs will depend on the makeup of Congress.

Getting seed and fertilizer to smallholder farmers at highly subsidized prices (or even free in some cases) will make a lasting difference.

So even good, critical questions or well-sourced data unearthed by citizen investigators tend to be regarded as radioactive to highly educated formal journalists.

Even here, the MDGs contain no numerical target for financial aid or any other aspect of rich countries' assistance, in contrast to the highly specific poverty-related targets set for developing countries.

Highly skilled workers, such as bankers and engineers, are flocking to China.

Indeed, many highly indebted countries in Latin America conducted similar debt buybacks in the late 1980's.

The silver lining is that there are many highly distinguished current and former policymakers out there, particularly from emerging market countries, who have seen this movie before.

The qualitative parallels are obvious: banks using off-balance loans to finance highly risky ventures, exotic new financial instruments, and excessive exuberance over the promise of new markets.

He set up a highly profitable arms trading company.

America is vulnerable to social breakdown because it is a highly diverse society.

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