doubly

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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

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From Middle English dowbly, doubli, dubli, doubeliche, equivalent to double +‎ -ly.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈdʌb.li/, /ˈdʌ.bəl.li/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Hyphenation: doub‧ly

Adverb

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doubly (not comparable)

  1. (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.
  2. In two ways
    Stealing and then lying about it is doubly wrong.
  3. (obsolete) with duplicity

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Translations

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References

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  1. ^ doubly”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Random House, Inc., 2014 December 2 (last accessed)

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