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enthusiastically en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English enthusiastic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English enthusiastically From enthusiastic + -ally.

Meanings

1. In an enthusiastic manner.
   • The new sea wall may stop the waves from the sea, but not from the children who enthusiastically greet our train as it passes. It's great to see this ages-old habit is still going strong. 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 65:
   • The further right or left you go, the more likely you are to eventually come around to hating Jews. On the left, this is plain to see. From the Corbyn-era trend to attack Israel for all the world's sins, to the self-hating asaJews that tweeted enthusiastically about October 7 being a 'day of celebration' to previously vanilla comedian Reginald Hunter retweeting posts about the evils of the Talmud. 2024 August 19, Josh Kaplan, “Why are Jews expected to put up with rampant social media antisemitism?”, in The Jewish Chronicle, London: Jewish Chronicle Media Limited, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2025:
   • When God presented Lilith to Adam, Adam was overjoyed and enthusiastically set her on the ground and tried to mount her after the fashion of the animals; but Lilith protested and said: "Why should I be on the bottom and you on the top?" 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 16:

Forms

Antonyms

unenthusiastically

Translations (18)

pl entuzjastycznie (in an enthusiastic manner) · cmn 狂熱地 /狂热地 (in an enthusiastic manner) · fi innoissaan (in an enthusiastic manner) · af entoesiasties (in an enthusiastic manner) · ru с энтузиа́змом (in an enthusiastic manner) · gl entusiasticamente (in an enthusiastic manner) · cs nadšeně (in an enthusiastic manner) · hu lelkesen (in an enthusiastic manner) · fr avec enthousiasme (in an enthusiastic manner) · it entusiasticamente (in an enthusiastic manner) · eo entuziasme (in an enthusiastic manner) · de enthusiastisch (in an enthusiastic manner) · fi innostuneesti (in an enthusiastic manner) · nl enthousiast (in an enthusiastic manner) · cmn 熱心地 /热心地 (in an enthusiastic manner) · es con entusiasmo (in an enthusiastic manner) · pt entusiasticamente (in an enthusiastic manner) · ca entusiàsticament (in an enthusiastic manner)