sorely
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5.2
- adverb
- /ˈsɔrli/
:
sumamente
- You were sorely missed at the last club meeting.
- sorely needed
- sorely lacking
- sorely missed
What is, is a feature that I sorely need for my setup.
- What is, is a feature that I sorely need for my setup.
- Steve Gould we he's sorely missed on the landscape of of biologist.
- So, you know, marriage, marriage is an institution with the best of intentions that is sorely tested over time.
- Because it's one goal is to get you to go back to that person and get the comfort that you so sorely want.
- So that's why if you think happy days are here again, I think you're sorely going to be disappointed.
Examples
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Our patience has been sorely tried, depriving us of faith and all guidance.
Fiction book (1994) -
In addition, it is clear that social work intervention studies are sorely needed in this area.
Academic text (2008) -
And I feel like it's sorely needed right now.
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His presence is sorely felt by everyone in the family.
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Lewis, you will be sorely missed.
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And in fact, it will, you know, I think in terms of near Earth operations, the shuttle will be sorely missed when we retire it.
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His remarkable soldiering skills would be sorely missed by the Emperor in the challenging years that lay ahead.
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First, concerted and coordinated intervention efforts are sorely needed within secondary schools.
Academic text (2015) -
A renewed and strengthened NATO could undertake a sorely needed "surge" in Afghanistan.
Academic text (2008) -
Her support during tough times is sorely appreciated by everyone in the team.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To a very great degree
922
1.0
To a very high degree, often about skill or rank
638
1.0
In a very forceful or certain way
606
1.6
To a very great degree
456
1.0
To a great degree
320
1.0
To a large degree or too much
272
4.1
In a very bad or serious way
230
1.4
To a very great degree, often before words like cold or sad
129
3.1
To a very large degree
103
3.0
By a very large amount
88
3.1
In a very strong or focused way
70
3.5
To a very large degree
18
4.4
Shows that something is very bad, unpleasant, or extreme
14
8.0
To a very great degree
11
3.5
To a large degree
1
7.5
In a very serious and urgent way
Antonyms
How Strongly
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sorely comes from sore ('painful' or 'severe') plus the ending -ly, so it originally meant 'in a painful or severe way'. That's why we use sorely to say something is needed or felt very strongly — in other words, 'very' or 'extremely'.