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dearly

adv
/ˈdɪɹli/US/ˈdɪəli/UK

Etymology

From Middle English derely, deorliche, from Old English dēorlīċe (“worthily, richly”), equivalent to dear + -ly.

  1. inherited from dēorlīċe — “worthily, richly”
  2. inherited from derely

Definitions

  1. In a dear or precious manner.

    • the funeral of our dearly beloved sister

  2. In a dear or expensive manner.

    • a dearly priced item

  3. At great expense

    At great expense; dear.

    • He paid dearly for his mistake.
    • But I take solace in the fact that the public has seen the enormous mountain of evidence proving what Fox did, and Fox paid dearly for it.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at dearly. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01dearly02precious03tenderness04express05stated06statement07declaration08love09beloved

A definitional loop anchored at dearly. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at dearly

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA