MAGNIFICENTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does magnificently mean? 

• MAGNIFICENTLY (adverb)
  The adverb MAGNIFICENTLY has 2 senses:

1. extremely well

2. in an impressively beautiful manner

  Familiarity information: MAGNIFICENTLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAGNIFICENTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extremely well

Synonyms:

excellently; famously; magnificently; splendidly

Context example:

we got along famously

Pertainym:

magnificent (characterized by grandeur)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In an impressively beautiful manner

Synonyms:

gorgeously; magnificently; resplendently; splendidly

Context example:

the Princess was gorgeously dressed

Pertainym:

magnificent (characterized by grandeur)

 Context examples 

I never saw a more splendid scene: the ladies were magnificently dressed; most of them—at least most of the younger ones—looked handsome; but Miss Ingram was certainly the queen.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Mars will bring out your sexy charms in Aquarius, a sign that blends magnificently with Gemini.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

“Look, mother,” said the man, “at the beautiful bird that is singing so magnificently; and how warm and bright the sun is, and what a delicious scent of spice in the air!”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

You are magnificent, and you are magnificently good.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

As Christmas approached, the usual mysteries began to haunt the house, and Jo frequently convulsed the family by proposing utterly impossible or magnificently absurd ceremonies, in honor of this unusually merry Christmas.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The heath was covered with golden patches of flowering gorse, gleaming magnificently in the light of the bright spring sunshine.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The ladies and courtiers were all most magnificently clad; so that the spot they stood upon seemed to resemble a petticoat spread upon the ground, embroidered with figures of gold and silver.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He was magnificently terrible.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

You may meet your one truelove at a holiday party, or a friend may set you up on a blind date that clicks magnificently!

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

After this a mist came round the tree, and in the midst of it there was a burning as of fire, and out of the fire there flew a beautiful bird, that rose high into the air, singing magnificently, and when it could no more be seen, the juniper-tree stood there as before, and the silk handkerchief and the bones were gone.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)