Badly and Fully

Badly

Badly adverb - To a great degree.
Usage example: blood donors are badly needed this time of year

Fully and badly are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Fully" instead an adverb "Badly".

Nearby Word: bad

Fully

Fully adverb - To a full extent or degree.

Badly and fully are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Badly" instead an adverb "Fully".

Nearby Word: full

Mutual synonyms

Both words in one sentence

  • Taking the Bullet He had been taught to redirect lightning, however, which meant that he was just badly injured instead of killed outright, since he couldn't fully redirect it in the middle of a Diving Save.
  • As predicted, pint-size Heroes versus fully-aware, unsurprised humans working with a full-size Hero ends badly for the small Heroes.
  • Manga / Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas Nope, turns out that badly injuring Alone rather than outright killing him allowed Hades to fully manifest right away.
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