Greatly and Rather

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Greatly adverb - In a manner befitting a person of the highest character and ideals.

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Rather and greatly are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Rather" instead an adverb "Greatly".

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Rather adverb - By choice or preference.

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Greatly and rather are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Greatly" instead an adverb "Rather".

Likewise while the comic has greatly inspired the move towards grittiness, Dave Gibbons' art is actually quite colourful rather than Real Is Brown or the studio darkness of it's movie adaptation.

Source: Comic Book / Watchmen
I greatly enjoyed reading although the beginning chapters are rather short, the later ones get longer thankfully.

Source: Fanfic Recs / Spider-Man
Known as the "pilot episodes", these episodes differed greatly in that rather than using CGI, all characters were models a la Thomas the Tank Engine (but were still in the Uncanny Valley).

Source: Western Animation / Jay Jay the Jet Plane

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