hautement

highly, greatly

adverb oht-MAHN Rare

Also means

openly, loudly

Usage Note

Hautement intensifies adjectives and past participles in formal or emphatic registers: hautement qualifié ('highly qualified'), hautement recommandé ('highly recommended'). Its secondary sense of 'openly' or 'loudly' appears in déclarer hautement ('to proclaim openly'). It is more formal than très and tends to appear in written or official language.

Examples

"Ce poste est hautement qualifié."

Natural Translation

This position is highly skilled.

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