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# dearly

«dearly» in Mova's school dictionary: **Very much: I love you dearly; she would dearly like a puppy** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (dearly)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Very much: I love you dearly; she would dearly like a puppy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dearly/#m1)

2) At a high cost, with suffering or loss: they paid dearly for their mistake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dearly/#m2)

3) (formal) Dearly beloved: words used at the start of a church wedding or funeral to greet people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dearly/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and cards it shows deep love (dearly loved). In stories of mistakes it shows a heavy price (paid dearly). Phrases: love dearly, pay dearly, dearly departed (euphemism for a dead person), dearly beloved.

### examples

- I love my grandma dearly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dearly/#x1)
- She would dearly love to visit Australia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dearly/#x2)
- The team paid dearly for that mistake and lost the match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dearly/#x3)
- (euphemism) We remember our dearly departed friend. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dearly/#x4)
- Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today... [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dearly/#x5)
- He missed his dog dearly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dearly/#x6)
- “I am indeed,” she replied, “and I love you dearly.” [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dearly/#x7)

### note

Adverb of dear. "Pay dearly" does not usually mean money — it means suffer for something. "Dearly departed" is a gentle way to talk about someone who has died.

### In the corpora

- ["The dearly departed" means the dead; it is polite and is sometimes used jokingly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dearly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dearly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.