What does plumply mean?
Plumply means unreservedly; fully.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adverb
unreservedly; fully.
Quite plumply, forgot the appointment.
He was plumply pleased by salutes on the street from unknown small boys; his ears were tickled to ruddy ecstasy by hearing himself called "Colonel;" and if he did not attend Sunday School merely to be thus exalted, certainly he thought about it all the way there.
Now Billy […] had some of the weaknesses inseparable from essential good-nature; and among these was a reluctance, almost an incapacity of plumply saying no to an abrupt proposition not obviously absurd, on the face of it, nor obviously unfriendly, nor iniquitous.
She lifted her night-dress over her head and for a moment caught a glimpse of her nakedness in the tarnished looking-glass—plumply rounded thighs and knees, the dimple in her stomach.
Use plumply when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Plumply means unreservedly; fully.
Common synonyms include roundly, plainly.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Quite plumply, forgot the appointment.
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