doubly en · ADV
Pronunciation
- /ˈdʌ.bəl.li/
- /ˈdʌb.li/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From Middle English dowbly, doubli, dubli, doubeliche, equivalent to double + -ly.
Meanings
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(not-comparable, of degree, of relative importance, qualifier:quantity or measure, usually) In a double manner; with twice the severity or degree.
Losing a teenmover is doubly painful; so Black continues to make moves.
1963 January, Hans Kmoch, “Games from Recent Events”, in Chess Review:My mother was always doubly careful when winding the grandfather clock.
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
1979 October 12, Douglas Adams, chapter 2, in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, London: Pan Books, →ISBN:
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(not-comparable) In two ways
Stealing and then lying about it is doubly wrong.
- (not-comparable, obsolete) with duplicity
Deriveds
doubly labeled water · doubly incontinent · doubly infinite · doubly-linked · doubly magic · doubly even · doubly transitive
Synonyms
double (in a double manner) · duplicitously (with duplicity) · twofold · dually (in two ways) · double-handedly (with duplicity) · deceptively (with duplicity)
Translations (11)
bg двойно (in a double manner) · es doblemente (in a double manner) · de doppelt (in a double manner) · nl dubbel (in a double manner) · ru вдвойне (in a double manner) · fr doublement (in a double manner) · ca doblement (in a double manner) · pl podwójnie (in a double manner) · cs dvojitě (in a double manner) · csb dëbelt (in a double manner) · it doppiamente (in a double manner)