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Definitions for: Lightly
[adv] with indifference or without dejection; "he took it lightly"
[adv] indulging with temperance; "we eat lightly in the morning"
[adv] to a slight degree; "her speech is only lightly accented"
[adv] with little weight or force; "she kissed him lightly on the forehead"
[adv] with few burdens; "experienced travellers travel light"
[adv] in a small quantity or extent; "spread the margarine thinly over the meat"; "apply paint lightly"
[adv] without good reason; "one cannot say such things lightly"
Webster (1913) Definition: Light"ly, adv.
1. With little weight; with little force; as, to tread
lightly; to press lightly.
Yet shall thy grave with rising flowers be drest,
And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast.
--Pope.
Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear Touched
lightly. --Milton.
2. Swiftly; nimbly; with agility.
So mikle was that barge, it might not lightly sail.
--R. of
Brunne.
Watch what thou seest and lightly bring me word.
--Tennyson.
3. Without deep impression.
The soft ideas of the cheerful note, Lightly
received, were easily forgot. --Prior.
4. In a small degree; slightly; not severely.
At the first he lightly afflicted the land of
Zebulun . . . and afterward did more grievously
afflict her. --Is. ix. 1.
5. With little effort or difficulty; easily; readily.
That lightly come, shall lightly go. --Old Proverb.
They come lightly by the malt, and need not spare
it. --Sir W.
Scott.
6. Without reason, or for reasons of little weight.
Flatter not the rich, neither do thou willingly or
lightly appear before great personages. --Jer.
Taylor.
7. Commonly; usually. [Obs.] --Bp. Fisher.
The great thieves of a state are lightly the
officers of the crown. --B. Jonson.
8. Without dejection; cheerfully. ``Seeming to bear it
lightly.'' --Shak.
9. Without heed or care; with levity; gayly; airily.
Matrimony . . . is not by any to be enterprised, nor
taken in hand, unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly.
--Book of
Common Prayer
[Eng. Ed.].
10. Not chastely; wantonly. --Swift.
Synonyms: gently, light, softly, thinly
Antonyms: hard, heavily, intemperately, thickly
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