vigorously

From vigorous +‎ -ly.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪɡəɹəsli/

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vigorously (comparative more vigorously, superlative most vigorously)

1. With intense energy, force or vigor

   The lawyer vigorously defended her client.

   He knocked vigorously on the door.

   • 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 706:

     The tender roared along vibrating vigorously; braking had resulted in "flats" on most of its tyres.

   • 2004, Stephen Hefling, Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music‎^[1]:

     For some writers, the flowering of chamber music around 1910 represents a reaction against the gargantuanism cultivated so vigorously in the previous century.

• energetically
• forcefully
• powerfully