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# roundly

«roundly» in Mova's school dictionary: **plainly and openly, without holding back: he declared…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (no forms)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Roundly means plainly and openly, without holding back: he declared roundly that he would not go. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roundly/#m1)

2) Roundly also means severely or thoroughly: she scolded him roundly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roundly/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a character speaks plainly or is told off hard; in lessons it describes how strongly someone speaks or acts

### examples

- “I do not understand this,” Finnian declared roundly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roundly/#x1)
- His mother abused him roundly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roundly/#x2)
- The theory was roundly rejected by everyone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roundly/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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