MILDLY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To a moderate degree

Example:

he was mildly interested

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

mild (moderate in type or degree or effect or force; far from extreme)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a gentle manner

Example:

he talked gently to the injured animal

Synonyms:

gently; mildly

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

mild (moderate in type or degree or effect or force; far from extreme)

Credits

Context examples:

He was untamed, wild, and in secret ways her vanity was touched by the fact that he came so mildly to her hand.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Aunt March saw that she had begun wrong, and after a little pause, made a fresh start, saying as mildly as she could, Now, Meg, my dear, be reasonable and take my advice.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The phosphoric salt may be one of three types: strongly acid monometallic, neutral or mildly alkaline dimetallic, and strongly alkaline tri-metallic.

(Phosphate Buffer, NCI Thesaurus)

Symptoms include mildly decreased vision and floaters.

(Pars Planitis, NCI Thesaurus)

Untreated and mildly treated mineral oils are strongly associated with an increased risk of scrotal and skin cancer but can also cause gastrointestinal, rectal, bladder and certain respiratory-tract cancers.

(Mineral oil, NCI Thesaurus)

A position of the fetus during the labor and delivery process where the fetal chin is mildly flexed but with a forward facing head.

(Neutral Fetal Attitude, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon intravesical instillation of cis-urocanic acid (cis-UCA), this agent is protonated at the imidazolyl moiety in the mildly acidic extracellular tumor environment and penetrates into the cancer cell.

(cis-Urocanic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

A breast lesion characterized by the presence of dilated terminal ductal lobular units in which the epithelial lining has been replaced by a single layer of mildly atypical cells, or there is atypical, monotonous epithelial hyperplasia of three to five layers.

(Flat Ductal Epithelial Atypia of the Breast, NCI Thesaurus)

That's to put it mildly.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

The poor man squalled terribly, and the colonel and his officers were in much pain, especially when they saw me take out my penknife: but I soon put them out of fear; for, looking mildly, and immediately cutting the strings he was bound with, I set him gently on the ground, and away he ran.