1. to a great extent; on a large scale:informal, humorous"we are going to reduce taxes bigly"
Word Originlate Middle English (meaning ‘with great force’): from big + -ly2. Rare from the late19th century until 2016, it was revived as a result of its association with President Donald Trump, whose adverbial use of big league in speech (to mean 'by a considerable amount') was widely misinterpreted as ‘bigly’.
