Slightly and Wholly

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Slightly

Slightly adverb - By a very small margin.
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Wholly is an antonym for slightly.
Nearby Word: slight

Wholly

Wholly adverb - To a full extent or degree.
Usage example: not wholly convinced by the evidence that the prosecutor presented
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Slightly is an antonym for wholly.
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  • Music / Lucinda Williams Two years later, a wholly Lucinda-penned follow-up called Happy Woman Blues garnered slightly more attention and considerably more praise.After spending eight years building a larger following, Williams released a self-titled third album in 1988.
    Source: Music / Lucinda Williams
  • The fact that Cain's 'memoirs' are being critically commented on and (left slightly incomplete to be) augmented by a fictional editor goes some way towards making them seem more real, but it doesn't change the fact that the parts that are wholly his own narration are the way that they are.
    Source: Infallible Narrator
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