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Definition of: lightly
(līt′lē) adverb
1. With little weight, force, pressure, or effect.
2. Without heaviness of spirit; airily; cheerily.
3. With levity; carelessly; heedlessly; also, frivolously, wantonly, or irreverently.
4. In a slight degree; slightly; mildly.
5. For slight reasons.
6. Nimbly; with light or swift step or motion.
7. Easily; readily.
—v.t. Scot. To make light of; slight.
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