Adverb

(en adverb)

In a strong substantial manner; considerably.

* 2012 October 23, David Leonhardt, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/us/politics/race-for-president-leaves-income-slump-in-shadows.html?_r=1&hp]," New York Times (retrieved 24 October 2012):

For the first time since the Great Depression, median family income has fallen substantially over an entire decade. Income grew slowly through most of the last decade, except at the top of the distribution, before falling sharply when the financial crisis began.

To a great extent; in essence; essentially.

Without material qualifications.

Adverb

(en adverb)

In an estimable manner; deserving of esteem.

* {{quote-book, year=1853, author=Fredrika Bremer, title=The Home, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The name of the sisters Frank stood estimably at the head of this useful establishment; but it is a question whether it would have prospered to such an extent, whether it would have developed itself so beautifully and well without the assistance of a person who, however, has carefully concealed his activity from the eye of the public, and whose name, for that reason, was never praised. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1901, author=Miles Franklin, title=My Brilliant Career, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=He had turned her adrift, neither a wife, widow, nor maid, and here she was, one of the most estimably lovable and noble women I have ever met. }}

* {{quote-news, year=1989, date=April 7, author=Kurt Jacobsen, title=Losing It, work=Chicago Reader citation

, passage=Director Breillat, screenwriter for Maurice Pialat's estimably gritty Police (1985), thoroughly demolishes every trace of prurience, instead focusing on the almost dizzying conflict within Lili--her confusion over her hunger for life and her anger at it. }}