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warmly en · ADV

Pronunciation

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• /ˈwɔɹmli/ (General-American)
• /ˈwɔːmli/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *warmaz Proto-West Germanic *warm Old English wearm Middle English warm English warm Middle English -ly English -ly English warmly From warm + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a manner that maintains warm temperature.
   • When praying in winter — and the winter in Regensburg was very cold — one should not shorten the prayers. He who is not warmly dressed, should go home. 2024, David Golinkin, “Should the cantor pray slowly or shorten the service?”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page 8:
   • Be sure to dress warmly today!
2. In a warm, friendly manner.
   • I said so - I said so warmly, for I felt that the Professor was an ill-used man. 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
3. (dated) With emotion, especially some anger; somewhat hotly.
   • "So you let the German spy slip through your fingers after all," protested Mr Carlyle warmly. 1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:
   • One evening in particular, about a week after Colonel Brandon left the country, his heart seemed more than usually open to every feeling of attachment to the objects around him; and on Mrs. Dashwood’s happening to mention her design of improving the cottage in the spring, he warmly opposed every alteration of a place which affection had established as perfect with him. “What!” he exclaimed⁠—“improve this dear cottage! No. That I will never consent to. Not a stone must be added to its walls, not an inch to its size, if my feelings are regarded.” 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XIV, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 166:
   • Elinor then ventured to doubt the propriety of her receiving such a present from a man so little, or at least so lately known to her. This was too much. “You are mistaken, Elinor,” said she warmly, “in supposing I know very little of Willoughby." 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 135:

Forms

Translations (17)

nb varmt (in a friendly manner) · fi lämpimästi (in a manner maintaining warm temperature) · fr chaudement (in a manner maintaining warm temperature) · ja 心から (in a friendly manner) · ca calorosament (in a manner maintaining warm temperature) · ja 暖かく (in a manner maintaining warm temperature) · sk vrelo (in a friendly manner) · sk vrúcne (in a friendly manner) · es calurosamente (in a manner maintaining warm temperature) · da varmt (in a friendly manner) · sk srdečne (in a friendly manner) · cs vřele (in a friendly manner) · cs teple (in a manner maintaining warm temperature) · nb varmt (in a manner maintaining warm temperature) · da varmt (in a manner maintaining warm temperature) · ru тепло́ (in a manner maintaining warm temperature) · sk teplo (in a manner maintaining warm temperature)