Heavily vs Badly - What's the difference?

heavily | badly |

As adverbs the difference between heavily and badly

is that heavily is in a heavy manner while badly is in a bad manner.

As an adjective badly is

ill, unwell.

heavily

English

Adverb

(en adverb)

In a heavy manner.

*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)

, chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.

With a great weight.

To a considerable degree, to a great extent.

*:An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.

In a manner designed for heavy duty.

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=14 citation , passage=Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime.}}

So as to be thick or heavy.

In a laboured manner.

badly

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

(Northern England) Ill, unwell.

He's never badly'''''. (''He's never '''ill .)

Adverb

In a bad manner.

Very much; to a great degree.

I want it so badly .

Usage notes

* Badly is sometimes used after feel in its copulative sense where one might expect an adjective, ie, bad. Most prescriptive grammarians prefer "I feel bad" to "I feel badly", but "I feel badly" is widely used.

Anagrams

* English suppletive adverbs