What is another word for roundly?

Pronunciation: [ɹˈa͡ʊndli] (IPA)

When it comes to describing an action done severely or emphatically, roundly is a great word to use. However, it is always better to have variations in your writing. Fortunately, there are several synonyms that you can use instead of roundly. Some of these synonyms include firmly, vigorously, resoundingly, comprehensively, soundly, thoroughly, wholeheartedly, authoritatively, categorically, and decisively. Each of these words has its unique spin to the meaning of 'roundly' and can be used to intensify your narrative, adding depth and context to your story. So switch it up and try these synonyms next time you want to describe something done roundly.

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Usage examples for Roundly

An' if ye had known what I knew, ye never could ha' tell't him what ye did so roundly an' sent him aboot his business wi' a straight face.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
The man, descending, roundly abused him, but became a little mollified when he heard his story.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss
I was roundly applauded.
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs

Famous quotes with Roundly

  • The White House has a choice: They can change course, or they can double down on a vision of government that the American people have roundly rejected.
    Mitch McConnell
  • I bought a copy of the out of a metal box, just to see what was happening in the world. The principal story indicated that the state legislature, in one of those moments of enlightenment with which the southern states often strive to distinguish themselves, was in the process of passing a law forbidding schools from teaching evolution. Instead they were to be required to instruct that that the earth was created by God, in seven days, sometime, oh, before the turn of the century. The article reminded us that this was not a new issue in Tennessee. The little town of Dayton—not far from where Katz and I now sat, as it happened—was the scene of the famous Scopes trial in 1925, when the state prosecuted a schoolteacher named John Thomas Scopes for rashly promulgating Darwinian hogwash. As nearly everyone knows, Clarence Darrow, for the defense, roundly humiliated William Jennings Bryan, for the prosecution, but what most people don’t realize is that Darrow lost the case. Scopes was convicted, and the law wasn’t overturned in Tennessee until 1967. And now the state was about to bring the law back, proving conclusively that the danger for Tennesseans isn’t so much that they may be descended from apes as overtaken by them.
    Bill Bryson
  • Slavery in the British colonies of North America was more than a century-and-a-half old before independence. It was roundly condemned, at one time or another, by nearly all the important political personages of the Revolution. I know of no instance in which any of these personages contradicted the doctrine of the Declaration, or maintained that slavery was a positive good. We must recognize, however, that slavery next to the family was perhaps the oldest institution of civilized mankind. Its origin in the ancient world came with the discovery that it was more profitable to enslave an enemy defeated in war than to kill him. The ancient law of the ancient city may be seen in the Bible. When the Israelites conquered Jericho, they put to the sword everyone in the city—men and women, young and old, sheep, oxen, and asses. Only Rahab the harlot and her family were spared, since they had given shelter to the Israelite spies. Later, in the custom of ancient warfare, the males of a defeated people would all be killed, but the women and children would be carried into slavery. Eventually the entire population of a defeated people would be enslaved. Such are the steps in the human story. That defeat in war meant slavery was the rule for many thousands of years.
    Harry V. Jaffa
  • Aristotle feels this so strongly with reference to Plato's external, as contrasted with his own immanent, teleology that, forgetting his own concession elsewhere, he once roundly asserts that the final cause is 'not touched by the Ideas'. Again, what is the relation of the Idea of the Good to other ends (Ideas) or to the special functions of things? Efficient causes Plato attributes at one time to Idea, at another to soul: which is his real doctrine? and what is the relation of Idea to soul? Aristotle, therefore, while willing to admit that Plato made 'stammering' efforts in the direction of efficient and final causes, was perfectly justified in thinking that he had not 'fully worked them out'.
    Plato
  • Many of the narratives can only tend to excite ideas the worst calculated for a female breast: Every thing is called plainly and roundly by its name; and the annals of a Brothel would scarcely furnish a greater choice of indecent expressions. Yet this is the Book, which young Women are recommended to study.
    Matthew Lewis (writer)

Related words: round, roundly sentence, round table, around the round table, around the table, the round table

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