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double spaced

double spaced is the alternative form of double-spaced.

double spaced is the simple past and past participle of double space.

Meaning of double-spaced

Adjective

double-spaced (not comparable)

  1. Formatted so that there is a full blank line between each line of text; the style of formatting required by many entities inside business, academia, and publishing.
    • All I do know for certain is that I had something happy and exciting to tell you—and on just one side of the paper, doublespaced — and I knew when I got home that it was mostly gone, or all gone, and there was nothing left to do but go through the motions.1957, J. D. Salinger, “Zooey”, in Franny and Zooey, published 1961

Meaning of double space

Verb

double space (third-person singular simple present double spaces, present participle double spacing, simple past and past participle double spaced)

  1. (ambitransitive) To format (a document) so that every other line is left blank, leaving sufficient whitespace for annotation (e.g. a teacher's corrections).

Questions about double spaced

What is double spaced the alternative form of?
Double spaced is the alternative form of double-spaced.

Words near double spaced in the dictionary

  1. double shoulder locks
  2. double shuffle
  3. double shuffles
  4. double small pica
  5. double space
  6. double spaced
  7. double spaces
  8. double spacing
  9. double spread
  10. double spreads
  11. Double Spring

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Adapted from Wiktionary: double spaced (page history and authors); double-spaced (page history and authors); double space (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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