doubly
English
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| Cardinal: two Ordinal: second Latinate ordinal: secondary Reverse order ordinal: second to last, second from last, last but one Latinate reverse order ordinal: penultimate Adverbial: two times, twice Multiplier: twofold Latinate multiplier: double Distributive: doubly Germanic collective: pair, twosome Collective of n parts: 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- Greek fractional prefix: hemi- 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
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
Translations
in a double manner
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