Mightly vs Mighty - What's the difference?
mightly | mighty |
Mighty; competent; capable; strong; powerful.
* 2008 , Douglas Menville, Forgotten Fantasy :
Substantial; weighty; of import.
* 1828 , Welland Canal Company, The Welland Canal Company :
* 1983 , Elizabeth K. Helsinger, THE WOMAN QUESTION Social Issues, 1837-1883 :
Able; able to occur; possible.
Mightily.
Very.
* 1904 , John Ames Mitchell, The villa Claudia :
* 1922 , American Hospital Association, Transactions :
Influential, powerful beings.
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* Bible , 1 Chronicles 11:12, King James Version:
Very strong; possessing might.
* Bible, Job ix. 4
Very heavy and powerful.
Accomplished by might; hence, extraordinary; wonderful.
* Bible, Matthew xi. 20
* Hawthorne
(informal) Excellent, extremely good.
(colloquial) Very; to a high degree.
* Samuel Pepys
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV
As adjectives the difference between mightly and mighty
is that mightly is mighty; competent; capable; strong; powerful while mighty is very strong; possessing might.As adverbs the difference between mightly and mighty
is that mightly is mightily while mighty is very; to a high degree.As a noun mighty is
influential, powerful beings.mightly
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- "We must strike a mightly blow as soon as possible for the sake of Lyone, our queen. Once break the power of the king, and he will be glad to sue for peace by liberating our adored idol, the pride of Atvatabar."
- In touching upon these mightly results, which must attend, or soon follow, the completion of Welland Canal, [...]
- Mightly indeed must be the Titanic current of that soul which could receive one whole human, full of thoughts, affections, and emotions, into its tide and yet remain uncoloured and unchanged.
Adverb
(en adverb)- "[...] Must have been mightly well corked." "With every possible care, probably. [...]"
- We need the best material possible, and I believe we have some mightly good material at the present time.
mighty
English
Noun
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Noun
(mighties)- And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighties .
Adjective
(er)- He's a mighty wrestler, but you are faster than him.
- Wise in heart, and mighty in strength.
- Thor swung his mighty hammer.
- He gave the ball a mighty hit.
- His mighty works
- Mighty was their fuss about little matters.
- Tonight's a mighty opportunity to have a party.
- She's a mighty cook.
Derived terms
* high and mightyAdverb
(-)- You can leave that food in your locker for the weekend, but it's going to smell mighty bad when you come back on Monday.
- Pork chops boiled with turnip greens makes a mighty fine meal.
- The lady is not heard of, and the King mighty angry and the Lord sent to the Tower.
- I was mighty glad that our entrance into the interior of Caprona had been inside a submarine rather than in any other form of vessel. I could readily understand how it might have been that Caprona had been invaded in the past by venturesome navigators without word of it ever reaching the outside world, for I can assure you that only by submarine could man pass up that great sluggish river, alive.