deeply

From Middle English depely, deplike, deopliche, from Old English dēoplīċe (“deeply”, adverb), from dēoplīc (“deep”), equivalent to deep +‎ -ly.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdiːpli/

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• Hyphenation: deep‧ly

deeply (comparative deeplier or more deeply, superlative deepliest or most deeply)

1. At depth, in a deep way.
2. To a deep extent.
3. Profoundly.
   • 1849, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1850, OCLC 3968433, canto CXXVII, page 199:

     Strange friend, past, present, and to be, / Loved deeplier, darklier understood; / Behold I dream a dream of good / And mingle all the world with thee.

• deep (adverb sense)

• Pedley, yelped