doubly
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈdʌb.li/
doubly (not comparable)
- (usually, of relative importance, of degree, quantity or measure) In a double manner; twice the severity or degree.
- 1979, Douglas Adams, chapter 2, in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy:
- Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
- My mother was always doubly careful when winding the grandfather clock.
- In two ways
- Stealing and then lying about it is doubly wrong.
- (obsolete) with duplicity
- (in a double manner) double, twofold; see also Thesaurus:twice
- (in two ways) dually
- (with duplicity) deceptively, double-handedly, duplicitously
- French: doublement
- German: doppelt
- Italian: doppiamente
- Spanish: doblemente
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