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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Trump has maneuvered mightily to get the wall built, but so far has been stymied by congressional Democrats. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Column: Another Trump whirlwind week on immigration and the border," 1 Sep. 2019 Treinen, who had one of the best seasons ever by a reliever last year, has struggled mightily most of this season, but he’d been unscored upon in 12 of his previous outings entering Wednesday. — Susan Slusser, SFChronicle.com, "Treinen stumbles again in A’s loss, Chapman exits after beanball," 28 Aug. 2019 But by 2010, the market had recovered mightily and never looked back - that is, until this past week. — Fortune, "Letter From Pebble Beach: What a Disappointing Classic Car Auction Tells us About the 1%—and the Economy," 24 Aug. 2019 Football programs at Kentucky and Louisville have both spent mightily on facility updates in recent years. — Gentry Estes, The Courier-Journal, "The costs to be great in college football are soaring. Here's why they're so important," 21 Aug. 2019 The annual tradition has grown mightily, expanding from 2.5 million residents across 400 communities in 23 states who took part in the inaugural event to 38 million residents in 16,000 communities across the United States. — Patrick May, The Mercury News, "A grieving Gilroy postpones its annual National Night Out next week," 2 Aug. 2019 Castro, the sole Latino in the race, has worked mightily to compete with Warren on the policy front with far-reaching plans on immigration and housing — so far to no avail. — Michael Finnegan, latimes.com, "Democratic debate: 5 things to watch for on the first night," 26 June 2019 Robertsdale plays in what is widely regarded as the toughest Class 6A region in the state (Region 1) and has struggled mightily in recent years. — Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, "First-year Robertsdale coach Kyle Stanford focused on unity, not daunting schedule," 7 Aug. 2019 Floyd Wilson's Petrohawk Energy pioneered South Texas' Eagle Ford shale, but his predecessor firm Halcon has struggled mightily. — Jordan Blum, Houston Chronicle, "Halcon Resources files for bankruptcy again," 7 Aug. 2019These 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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