mightily
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Synonyms & Antonyms for mightily
Synonyms
achingly, almighty, archly, awful, awfully, badly, beastly, blisteringly, bone, colossally, corking, cracking, damn, damned, dang, deadly, desperately, eminently, enormously, especially, ever, exceedingly (also exceeding), extra, extremely, fabulously, fantastically, far, fiercely, filthy, frightfully, full, greatly, heavily, highly, hugely, immensely, incredibly, intensely, jolly, majorly, mighty, monstrous [chiefly dialect], mortally, most, much, particularly, passing, rattling, real, really, right, roaring, roaringly, seriously, severely, so, sore, sorely, spanking, specially, stinking, such, super, supremely, surpassingly, terribly, that, thumping, too, unco, uncommonly, vastly, very, vitally, way, whacking, wicked, wildly
Antonyms
little, negligibly, nominally, slightly, somewhat
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In his absence, the ‘pen struggled mightily during the first few weeks of the season, lowlighted by several disastrous meltdowns. — SI.com, "Long Time Coming: Craig Kimbrel Joins Cubs After Lengthy Free Agency Stint," 5 June 2019 The strange behavior comes at a time when his car company, Tesla, has struggled mightily and his increasingly erratic behavior has made the spotlight on him even brigther. — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, "Elon Musk and Howard Hughes eccentric, Hollywood-loving entrepreneurs who share much in common," 7 Sep. 2018 The 21-year-old was mightily impressive during the 2017/18 season with the French outfit, bagging himself 12 goals and eight assists in all competitions. — SI.com, "Spurs Said to Be Leading the Race to Land Highly Rated Bordeaux Winger This Summer," 10 July 2018 The fate of the world hung in the balance during the Cold War standoff between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Coke vs. Pepsi once mattered mightily. — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, "Alibaba v. Tencent: The Battle for Supremacy in China," 21 June 2018 Then there was one — just one — on its own pushing mightily through the leaves in a very unlikely place. — Anne Gusewelle, kansascity, "Hunt for morels brings back happy memories and rush of grief, gratitude," 16 June 2018 The atmosphere was pure Baker Street and the audience of teachers, students and members of the Watson’s Tin Box Sherlock Holmes group were mightily impressed. — Lisa Peklo, Howard County Times, "Young Girl Scouts earn Gold and Silver awards [West Friendship]," 14 June 2018 Hughes, a former delegate and state senator from the Eastern Shore, was praised mightily. — Chris Kaltenbach, baltimoresun.com, "In 1978, The Sun endorsed a dark horse — and helped him become governor," 12 June 2018 Disappointed mightily in myself, losing it when likely to finish 3rd at worse is awful. — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, "Scott Dixon scores first win of season at opening leg of Detroit doubleheader," 2 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'mightily.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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