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bigly

Adverb
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

In a large, grand, or emphatic manner; the adverb can intensify an action or quality, sometimes with a tone of exaggerated importance.

Detailed Definition
This is an old or rare adverb meaning “greatly” or “in a large manner.” In the poem, it describes the future as something seen as strongly or grandly planned, which sounds unusual to modern readers.
Example
Example in poetry:
“You only saw your future bigly planned,” uses bigly as an adverb meaning greatly or in a grand manner; older literary usage predates its recent political associations; “the banners rose bigly over the square” gives it a deliberately elevated, archaic tone; because modern readers may hear irony in the word, poets can exploit its comic or rhetorical weight
Additional Notes
“bigly” is an uncommon adverb in the line quoted, and most modern readers would pause to check its meaning.; Found in the poem, To Germany by Charles Sorley
Also Known As
grandly significantly impressively notably
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