Heavily vs Vigorously - What's the difference?
heavily | vigorously | Related terms |
In a heavy manner.
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= With a great weight.
To a considerable degree, to a great extent.
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*: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 So as to be thick or heavy.
In a laboured manner.
With intense energy, force or vigor
Heavily is a related term of vigorously.
As adverbs the difference between heavily and vigorously
is that heavily is in a heavy manner while vigorously is with intense energy, force or vigor.heavily
English
Adverb
(en adverb)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.
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.}}
vigorously
English
Alternative forms
* vigourouslyAdverb
(en adverb)- The lawyer vigorously defended her client.
- He knocked vigorously on the door.