zealously

adverb

Definition of zealouslynext
1
as in vigorously

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2
as in fanatically

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Recent Examples of zealously Lawyers do not merely promise to represent clients zealously. — Joseph Andrew, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026 Blanche has reportedly been involved in overseeing the Schiff investigation and butted heads with former Justice official Ed Martin, who had zealously investigated Schiff before being removed. — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2026 Its founder, Ayatollah Khomeini, established a religious dictatorship that subjugates the Iranian people under sharia law, while zealously exporting its dogma by force. — Elan Journo, Oc Register, 10 Mar. 2026 At a time when post-punk was already on the verge of becoming a commodity, Gartside and his motley crew were zealously committed to DIY. — Andy Cush, Pitchfork, 15 Feb. 2026 Influencers like Stuckey are zealously policing any deviation from the party line. — Hillary Rodham Clinton, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026 Even India, which zealously guards its sovereignty, has moderated its Russian oil imports in response to Washington's demands. — Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Time, 15 Jan. 2026 Everybody hates cleaning up a big, splattery mess caused by zealously bubbling sauce or aggressively popping oil, not to mention getting some of that splatter on yourself. — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2026 This office will zealously pursue justice to the fullest extent of the law to protect our vulnerable adults and their families from such an atrocity. — Christina Hall, Freep.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for zealously
  1. vigorously
  2. fanatically
  3. actively
  4. warmly
  5. vehemently
  6. rabidly
  7. energetically
  8. avidly
Adverb
  • Protect Both Academic Freedom and Institutional Neutrality Universities should vigorously defend the freedom of individual faculty and students to pursue controversial ideas.
    — David Rosowsky, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The easy solution is to remove the most vigorously growing plants to give the rest a fighting chance.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of vigorously
Adverb
  • But Anthony Fauci is a near-perfect example of the modern public health profession, someone who believes fanatically in his own infallibility.
    — Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 8 May 2026
  • The children playing Lamia and Saeed had no training as actors, yet both are fanatically precise, effortlessly expressive, and pensively deep-hearted.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2026
Definition of fanatically
Adverb
  • Unlike cameras, lidar actively measures distance, allowing vehicles to build a detailed depth map of the road ahead.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Prostate biopsies are lucrative for urologists, who can do them in their practice and therefore have an incentive to order them, and so is finding clinically insignificant cancers that can be actively monitored, potentially through further biopsies.
    — Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of actively
Adverb
  • People may respond more warmly to you, but the real gift is feeling more at home in your own presence.
    — Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Benign temperatures perfectly match the city’s character, and visitors are always warmly and affectionately welcomed.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of warmly
Adverb
  • While its author, a 25-year-old Nigerian named Jerry Falade, also vehemently denies using AI, in his case nobody seems to believe him — especially after Publishers Lunch ran his manuscript through a detector and got a 97 percent AI score.
    — Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Madix vehemently denies sharing them with anyone other than Leviss.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of vehemently
Adverb
  • In front of a rabidly hostile, pro-ECW crowd at the Hammerstein Ballroom, RVD defeated Cena to win his first and only WWE Championship.
    — Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
Definition of rabidly
Adverb
  • Plenty of his peers filled the void, none more energetically than Chesney, who has by now built a beachy brand that almost rivals Buffett’s.
    — Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 19 July 2026
  • There was also a large contingent of Iranian fans who energetically waved the nation’s current flag.
    — Todd Harmonson, Oc Register, 16 June 2026
Definition of energetically
Adverb
  • The couple were deeply involved in literary circles, collected books avidly, read voraciously as well as penning various works.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
  • Yet years spent avidly collecting the pieces naturally left a mark in his approach.
    — Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 6 Feb. 2026
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