warmly

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US/ˈwɔɹmli/UK/ˈwɔːmli/

adverb

In a manner that maintains warm temperature.

“Be sure to dress warmly today!”

Less commonScrabble 14

Meanings

adverbwarmly (comparative warmlier or more warmly, superlative warmliest or most warmly)

comparative warmlier · comparative more warmly · superlative warmliest · superlative most warmly

  1. In a manner that maintains warm temperature.

    Be sure to dress warmly today!

    1 more example

    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
  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. datedWith 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
    2 more examples

    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

Synonyms & antonyms

adverbin a hearty manner

adverbin a warm manner

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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Germanic*warmaz
  2. Proto-West Germanic*warm
  3. Old Englishwearm
  4. Middle Englishwarm
  5. Englishwarm
  6. Englishwarmly

From warm + -ly.

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Translations

Catalan calorosament
  • calorosamentin a manner maintaining warm temperature
Czech teple, vřele
  • teplein a manner maintaining warm temperature
  • vřelein a friendly manner
Danish varmt, varmt
  • varmtin a manner maintaining warm temperature
  • varmtin a friendly manner
Finnish lämpimästi
  • lämpimästiin a manner maintaining warm temperature
French chaudement
  • chaudementin a manner maintaining warm temperature
Japanese 暖かく, 心から
  • 暖かく (atatakaku)in a manner maintaining warm temperature
  • 心から (kokoro kara)in a friendly manner
Norwegian Bokmål varmt, varmt
  • varmtin a manner maintaining warm temperature
  • varmtin a friendly manner
Russian тепло́
  • тепло́ (tepló)in a manner maintaining warm temperature
Slovak teplo, vrelo
  • teploin a manner maintaining warm temperature
  • vreloin a friendly manner
  • vrúcnein a friendly manner
  • srdečnein a friendly manner
Spanish calurosamente
  • calurosamentein a manner maintaining warm temperature
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