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Strongly vs Badly - What's the difference?

strongly | badly |

As adverbs the difference between strongly and badly

is that strongly is in a strong or powerful manner while badly is in a bad manner.

As an adjective badly is

(northern england) ill, unwell.

strongly

English

Adverb

(en-adv)
  • In a strong or powerful manner.
  • Very much.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.}}

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    * English degree adverbs

    badly

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (Northern England) Ill, unwell.
    • He's never badly'''''. (''He's never '''ill .)

    Adverb

  • In a bad manner.
  • Very much; to a great degree.
    • I want it so badly .

    Usage notes

    * Badly is sometimes used after feel in its copulative sense where one might expect an adjective, ie, bad. Most prescriptive grammarians prefer "I feel bad" to "I feel badly", but "I feel badly" is widely used.

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    * English suppletive adverbs