Highly vs Excellent - What's the difference?
highly | excellent |
In a high or esteemed manner.
Extremely; greatly; very much.
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, title= Of the highest quality; splendid.
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*:A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
Exceptionally good of its kind.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality.
*(David Hume) (1711-1776)
*:an excellent hypocrite
*(Beaumont and Fletcher) (1603-1625)
*:Their sorrows are most excellent .
(obsolete) Excellently.
*, New York Review Books 2001, p.287:
As adverbs the difference between highly and excellent
is that highly is in a high or esteemed manner while excellent is (obsolete) excellently.As an adjective excellent is
of the highest quality; splendid.highly
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Adverb
(en-adv)David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan
Wild Plants to the Rescue, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
Usage notes
* The adverb highly' and the adverb ' high shouldn't be confused. *: This is certainly highly recommended. *: High above us the stars were shining.excellent
English
(wikipedia excellent)Adjective
(en-adj)Catherine Clabby
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Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* excellence * excellently * excellentnessAdverb
(en adverb)- Lucian, in his tract de Mercede conductis , hath excellent well deciphered such men's proceedings in his picture of Opulentia […].
