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hotly

hotly adverb: with great amounts of heat.

Adverb

hotly (comparative more hotly, superlative most hotly)

  1. With great amounts of heat.
  2. In a heated manner; intensely or vehemently.
    • In my excitement I had not been taking notice of other things, and I looked up to see the lord of the harem charging down upon me. Again I fled to the boat, hotly pursued; but this time Maud made no suggestion of turning back.1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC
    • "You are really intolerable!" said I, hotly.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

hotly meaning in Telugu and Malayalam

hotly in Telugu

hotly
వేడిగా vēḍigā

hotly in Malayalam

vigorously, vehemently, strenuously
ചൂടോടെ, വികാരതീവ്രതയോടെ, ശക്തിയായി, തീക്ഷ്ണമായി, ഉഗ്രമായി, സാവേശം
swiftly, closely, quickly
ചൂടോടെ, തൊട്ടുതൊട്ട്, പിന്തുടർന്ന്, അടുത്ത്, ദ്രുതം, വേഗത്തിൽ

Examples of hotly in a sentence

  • There's lot of stories being told around about that old man.” “Them's lies,” denied South Boy hotly.
  • Yet the wider significance of Ice-T’s pop-cultural prominence is hotly contested.
  • A last bee, still stockpiling pollen, hums hotly against this Octobral creep of cold.

All 15 example sentences with hotly

Forms of hotly

comparativemore hotly
superlativemost hotly

Origin of hotly

From Middle English *hotly, *hatliche, from Old English hātlīċe (“ardently, fervently”); equivalent to hot + -ly.

Questions about hotly

What does hotly mean?
Hotly means with great amounts of heat.
What is hotly in Telugu?
Hotly in Telugu is వేడిగా (vēḍigā). See Hotly meaning in Telugu.
What part of speech is hotly?
Hotly is an adverb.

Words near hotly in the dictionary

  1. hotlinks
  2. hotlist
  3. hotlisted
  4. hotlisting
  5. hotlists
  6. hotly
  7. Hotmailer
  8. Hotmailers
  9. hotmelt
  10. hotmelts
  11. hotmouthed

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hotly (page history and authors); వేడిగా (Telugu) (page history and authors); hotly (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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