Highly vs Majorly - What's the difference?
highly | majorly |
In a high or esteemed manner.
Extremely; greatly; very much.
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, title= (informal) significantly; very, very much
* 1984, Joseph Westlund, Shakespeare's Reparative Comedies: A Psychoanalytic View of the Middle Plays , University of Chicago Press, Page 92
*:“Campus police break up parties routinely, but nobody really gets majorly busted.”
* 2000, Scholastic, Inc. Staff (eds), Diary of a Junior Year , Scholastic Paperbacks, Page 135
* 2004, John Ringo & Julie Cochrane, Cally's War , Baen Books
* 2005, Lauren Mechling, Laura Moser, The Rise and Fall of a 10th-grade Social Climber , Graphia Books, Page 173
*:“Mimi, here’s the thing. When somebody in that crowd goes and does something majorly out of control like that, it’s only a matter of days before the rest of the girls in school make sure they've caught up. [...]”
mostly, primarily
* 1930, American Orthopsychiatric Association, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry , American Orthopsychiatric Association, Page 634
* 1963, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) and British Economic Association, The Economic Journal: The Quarterly Journey of the British Economic Association , Macmillan, Page 686
* 2000, Bernard F. Feldman, Joseph G. Zinkl, Nemi C. Jain (eds), Schalm's Veterinary Hematology , Blackwell Publishing, Page 260
As adverbs the difference between highly and majorly
is that highly is in a high or esteemed manner while majorly is (informal) significantly; very, very much.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.majorly
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Adverb
(-)- The thing is I am majorly stressing because I have no prom date set up.
- The Taco Hell was okay the last time I tried it, but that was a few months ago when I was majorly low on cash.
- Significant contrasts can be drawn between the course of personality development in which children are majorly reared by grandparents who have [...]
- This is due not solely, or even majorly, to the fact the above type of analysis concerns itself primarily with what will happen in the long run.
- This chapter is majorly devoted to the primary immunodeficiencies that have been documented in domestic animals.
