strongly

English

Etymology

From Middle English strongliche, strangliche, from Old English stranglīċe (“strongly”), equivalent to strong +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstɹɔŋli/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈstɹɒŋli/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈstɹɑŋli/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: strong‧ly

Adverb

strongly (comparative stronglier or more strongly, superlative strongliest or most strongly)

1. In a strong or powerful manner.

   The Pope feels strongly about the need for both sides of the armed conflict to return to the negotiating table.

   In the third race, Renowned Blaze finished strongly to win, paying sixteen dollars.

2. Very much.

   His reply was strongly suggestive of a forthcoming challenge to the governor.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.

   • 2025 July 5, Sebastian Shukla, “Denmark has long been Euroskeptic. Donald Trump helped change that”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     As Denmark takes over the presidency of the European Union, Danes are more strongly pro-European than at any time in the past two decades – a shift in sentiment that can at least partly be attributed to US President Donald Trump.

3. (mathematics) Fulfilling a stricter set of criteria.

   Antonym: weakly

Derived terms

• strongly connected
• strongly connected component
• strongly interacting massive particle
• strongly symmetric matter
• strongly-typed

Translations

in a strong or powerful manner

• Armenian: սաստիկ (hy) (sastik)
• Bulgarian: силно (bg) (silno)
• Catalan: fort (ca) de valent
• Czech: silně (cs)
• Estonian: tugevalt
• Finnish: voimakkaasti (fi), voimallisesti (fi), kovasti (fi), rajusti (fi), rankasti (fi), suuresti (fi)
• French: fort (fr), fortement (fr)
• Galician: fortemente, gordo (gl)
• Georgian: ძლიერად (ʒlierad), ძლიერ (ʒlier)
• German: stark (de)
• Hungarian: erősen (hu)
• Interlingua: fortemente
• Irish: go láidir
• Italian: fortemente (it), fermamente (it)
• Latin: fortiter (la), firmiter
• Malayalam: ശക്തിയായി (śaktiyāyi)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: виян (vijan)

• Nahuatl: chicauaztica
• Polish: silnie (pl), mocno (pl)
• Romanian: puternic (ro), cu putere
• Russian: си́льно (ru) (sílʹno)
• Spanish: fuertemente (es)
• Swedish: starkt (sv)

very much

• Bulgarian: много (bg) (mnogo)
• Catalan: força (ca) de valent
• Finnish: Thesaurus:erittäin (fi)
• French: fortement (fr)
• Georgian: ძლიერ (ʒlier)
• Hungarian: határozottan (hu), nyomatékosan (hu), markánsan, erőteljesen (hu)
• Italian: ampiamente (it)
• Romanian: foarte (ro), tare (ro)
• Russian: си́льно (ru) (sílʹno)

mathematics

• Finnish vahvasti (fi)
• French: fortement (fr)

Anagrams

• strongyl