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Highly vs Radically - What's the difference?

highly | radically |

As adverbs the difference between highly and radically

is that highly is in a high or esteemed manner while radically is in a radical manner; fundamentally; very.

highly

English

Adverb

(en-adv)
  • In a high or esteemed manner.
  • Extremely; greatly; very much.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan
  • , title= 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.

    radically

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a radical manner; fundamentally; very.
  • two radically different political groups
  • * 2013 , Louise Taylor, English talent gets left behind as Premier League keeps importing'' (in ''The Guardian , 20 August 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/aug/19/english-talent-premier-league-importing]
  • The reasons for this growing disconnect are myriad and complex but the situation is exacerbated by the reality that those English players who do smash through our game's "glass ceiling" command radically inflated transfer fees.
  • At the root.
  • "Clot" and "clod" are radically the same word.
  • * 1788 , Jonathan Edwards, in a report to the Connecticut Society of Arts and Sciences:
  • This [Algonquian] language [family] is spoken by all the Indians throughout New England. Every tribe, as that of Stockbridge, that of Farmington, that of New London, &c. has a different dialect [i.e. language], but the language [family] is radically the same.