Slightly and Very much

Slightly

Slightly adverb - By a very small margin.

Very much is an antonym for slightly in considerably topic.

Nearby Word: slight

Very much

Very much adverb - To a very great degree or extent.

Slightly is an antonym for very much in topics: sufficiently, significantly.

Both terms in one sentence

  • Literature / Aubrey-Maturin Also slightly subverted in book one, as the Sophie is very much the Age of Sail equivalent of a rustbucket.
  • Who Even Needs a Brain? The downplayed version of this trope (in which bits of brain are removed, leaving the victim slightly less capable) is very much Truth in Television.
  • Creator / Lewis Carroll Slightly averted in that he was very much more fond of small girls than of small boys.
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