Definitions for severely
severe·ly

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. badly, severely, gravely, seriously(adverb)

   to a severe or serious degree

   "fingers so badly frozen they had to be amputated"; "badly injured"; "a severely impaired heart"; "is gravely ill"; "was seriously ill"

2. sternly, severely(adverb)

   with sternness; in a severe manner

   "`No,' she said sternly"; "peered severely over her glasses"

3. hard, severely(adverb)

   causing great damage or hardship

   "industries hit hard by the depression"; "she was severely affected by the bank's failure"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. severely(Adverb)

   In a severe manner.

British National Corpus

1. Adverbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'severely' in Adverbs Frequency: #314

How to pronounce severely?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say severely in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of severely in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of severely in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of severely in a Sentence

1. Tina Tan:

   Out of Los Angeles they were reporting that younger African-Americans and Latinos were being affected by Covid more severely and actually being hospitalized.

2. Devendra Singh Tak:

   Information about remote areas is severely lacking at this time.

3. Terrisa Bukovinac:

   Rep. Pressleys attempt to paint a truly life-saving amendment, one designed specifically to protect black, brown, and underprivileged people from being coerced by the state into choosing abortion, is severely problematic, the Hyde amendment has saved more than 2 million lives that are disproportionately black and brown. Suggesting that these people are better off dead is itself an expression of the white supremacist ideals that gave birth to the abortion industry in the first place! The American people deserve better than state sanctioned violence against their own offspring and the majority of Democrats agree. Taking a position against Hyde is a losing one.

4. Chris Jarvis:

   A severely oversold and shorted oil market is creating a bid for covering in U.S. crude.

5. Jon Sherman:

   What's really galling about how severely restrictive the voter ID law requirements are for students, how many traps and hoops that are for them to navigate, is that Wisconsin has the most restrictive voting regime overall, and basically the whole country, in order to vote there.

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