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roundly

adverbC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,841 of 15,258leans written

Roundly means firmly and thoroughly, said of criticism. Roundly condemned, roundly beaten, roundly rejected.

It attaches to a short list of verbs — condemned, criticised, defeated — and always intensifies. The round in it means complete or full, the same sense as in a round dozen, rather than anything about shape.

Definitions of roundly

  1. 1adverbroundlyFirmly and thoroughly.C1

    “The proposal was roundly rejected by every member of the committee.”

roundly is a degree.

Where it comes from

Round plus -ly, from round in the sense of full or complete, as in a round number.

  1. Middle English

    roundly

  2. English, today

    roundly

From Middle English roundly, roundely, roundliche, equivalent to round + ly.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

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roundly in the wild

  • An ogive ( OH-jyve) is the roundly tapered end of a two- or three-dimensional object.

    Ogive

  • The announcement of the decision was roundly booed by the spectators.

    Tommy Farr

  • Though Lovecraft himself was quite fond of the story, it was roundly rejected by a variety of magazines.

    The Nameless City

  • Issues of what is folk music, what is folk rock, and who is folk were roundly discussed and debated.

    Broadside (magazine)

  • The same actor, Jon Jon Briones, played Magno in both languages and was roundly acclaimed.

    The Romance of Magno Rubio

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

  • round