purely

Adverb

Meaning

In a pure manner (in any sense of the adjective).

Nicely; prettily.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

all only but just geologically righteously completely simply alone quite entirely merely strictly solely mere
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Antonyms

besides furthermore plus guiltily partly hardly
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Phrases with the word

in one language purely

Anagrams

Purley

Examples

I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. Stephen Hawking

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori. Carl Friedrich Gauss

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry. Martin Gardner

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting. Edward Hopper

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance. Václav Havel

Close letter words and terms

puree machine purehearted purell purely and simply purely imaginary purely imaginary number