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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: lightly (0.00891 detik)
Found 4 items, similar to lightly.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: lightly
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English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: lightly
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: lightly
lightly
adv 1: without good reason;
“one cannot say such things lightly”
2: with few burdens;
“experienced travellers travel light”
[syn:
light]
3: with little weight or force;
“she kissed him lightly on the
forehead” [syn:
softly,
gently]
4: indulging with temperance;
“we eat lightly in the morning”
[ant:
heavily]
5: with indifference or without dejection;
“he took it lightly”
6: in a small quantity or extent;
“spread the margarine thinly
over the meat”;
“apply paint lightly” [syn:
thinly]
[ant:
thickly]
7: to a slight degree;
“her speech is only lightly accented”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Lightly
Lightly
\Light"ly\, adv.
1. With little weight; with little force; as, to tread
lightly; to press lightly.
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Yet shall thy grave with rising flowers be drest,
And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast.
--Pope.
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Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear
Touched lightly. --Milton.
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2. Swiftly; nimbly; with agility.
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So mikle was that barge, it might not lightly sail.
--R. of
Brunne.
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Watch what thou seest and lightly bring me word.
--Tennyson.
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3. Without deep impression.
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The soft ideas of the cheerful note,
Lightly received, were easily forgot. --Prior.
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4. In a small degree; slightly; not severely.
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At the first he lightly afflicted the land of
Zebulun . . . and afterward did more grievously
afflict her. --Is. ix. 1.
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5. With little effort or difficulty; easily; readily.
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That lightly come, shall lightly go. --Old Proverb.
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They come lightly by the malt, and need not spare
it. --Sir W.
Scott.
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6. Without reason, or for reasons of little weight.
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Flatter not the rich, neither do thou willingly or
lightly appear before great personages. --Jer.
Taylor.
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7. Commonly; usually. [Obs.] --Bp. Fisher.
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The great thieves of a state are lightly the
officers of the crown. --B. Jonson.
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8. Without dejection; cheerfully.
“Seeming to bear it
lightly.” --Shak.
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9. Without heed or care; with levity; gayly; airily.
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Matrimony . . . is not by any to be enterprised, nor
taken in hand, unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly.
--Book of
Common Prayer
[Eng. Ed.].
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10. Not chastely; wantonly. --Swift.
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