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doubly

adv
/ˈdʌb.li/

Etymology

From Middle English dowbly, doubli, dubli, doubeliche, equivalent to double + -ly.

  1. inherited from dowbly

Definitions

  1. In a double manner

    In a double manner; with twice the severity or degree.

    • My mother was always doubly careful when winding the grandfather clock.
    • Losing a teenmover is doubly painful; so Black continues to make moves.
    • Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

  2. In two ways

    • Stealing and then lying about it is doubly wrong.

  3. with duplicity

The neighborhood

Derived

doubly even, doubly incontinent, doubly infinite, doubly labeled water, doubly-linked, doubly magic, doubly transitive

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for doubly. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA