universally

adv
/ˌjunɪˈvɝsəli/US/ˌjuːnɪˈvɜːsəli/UK

Etymology

From Middle English universally; equivalent to universal + -ly.

  1. inherited from universally

Definitions

  1. In a universal manner.

    • My experience of the people was that they were universally polite, civil, and clean, and during the whole time I spent in the country, I only saw one drunken man.
    • If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […] .
  2. By everyone or by the vast majority of people.

    • The movie was universally praised by its audience.
    • It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for universally. 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