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SPLENDIDLY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extremely well

Example:

we got along famously

Synonyms:

excellently; famously; magnificently; splendidly

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

splendid (very good; of the highest quality)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In an impressively beautiful manner

Example:

the Princess was gorgeously dressed

Synonyms:

gorgeously; magnificently; resplendently; splendidly

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

splendid (having great beauty and splendor)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Jo sat as if blandly unconscious of it all, with deportment like Maud's face, 'icily regular, splendidly null'.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He was certainly a splendidly built young athlete, and one could not have wished to look upon a finer sight as his white skin, sleek and luminous as a panther’s, gleamed in the light of the morning sun, with a beautiful liquid rippling of muscles at every movement.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She rides splendidly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Returning from one of Mozart's grand operas, splendidly performed at the Royal Theatre, he looked over his own, played a few of the best parts, sat staring at the busts of Mendelssohn, Beethoven, and Bach, who stared benignly back again.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)