vigorously

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English

Etymology

From vigorous + -ly.

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Adverb

vigorously (comparative more vigorously, superlative most vigorously)

  1. With intense energy, force or vigor
    The lawyer vigorously defended her client.
    He knocked vigorously on the door.
    • 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 706:
      The tender roared along vibrating vigorously; braking had resulted in "flats" on most of its tyres.
    • 2004, Stephen Hefling, Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music:
      For some writers, the flowering of chamber music around 1910 represents a reaction against the gargantuanism cultivated so vigorously in the previous century.

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