doubly
English
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| Cardinal: two Ordinal: second Latinate ordinal: secondary Adverbial: two times, twice Multiplier: twofold Latinate multiplier: double Distributive: doubly Collective: both, pair, twosome Multiuse collective: doublet, couple, couplet Greek or Latinate collective: dyad Metric collective prefix: double- Greek collective prefix: di-, duo- Latinate collective prefix: bi- Fractional: half Metric fractional prefix: demi- Latinate fractional prefix: semi- Elemental: twin, doublet Greek prefix: deutero- Number of musicians: duo, duet, duplet Number of years: biennium | ||
Etymology
From Middle English dowbly, doubli, dubli, doubeliche, equivalent to double + -ly.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdʌb.li/
Audio (UK) (file) - Hyphenation: doub‧ly
Adverb
doubly (not comparable)
- (usually of relative importance, of degree, quantity or measure) In a double manner; with twice the severity or degree.
- My mother was always doubly careful when winding the grandfather clock.
- 1979 October 12, Douglas Adams, chapter 2, in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, London: Pan Books, →ISBN:
- Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
- In two ways
- Stealing and then lying about it is doubly wrong.
- (obsolete) with duplicity
Synonyms
- (in a double manner): double, twofold; see also Thesaurus:twice
- (in two ways): dually
- (with duplicity): deceptively, double-handedly, duplicitously
Derived terms
- doubly even
- doubly incontinent
- doubly infinite
- doubly labeled water
- doubly-linked
- doubly magic
- doubly transitive
Translations
in a double manner
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References
- “doubly”, in (please provide the title of the work) (in English), Random House, Inc., accessed 2014-12-02
Anagrams
- bloudy