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doubly

Syllables: doub·ly/ˈdʌb.li/

doubly adverb: in a double manner; with twice the severity or degree.

Adverb

doubly (not comparable)

  1. (usually, quantity or measure) 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.1963 January, Hans Kmoch, “Games from Recent Events”, in Chess Review
    Synonyms:
    double
  2. In two ways
    • Stealing and then lying about it is doubly wrong.
    Synonyms:
    dually
  3. (obsolete) with duplicity

doubly meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Sanskrit

doubly in Urdu

doubly, twofold
دونا dūnā

doubly in Malayalam

in double measure, twice as, even more
ദ്വിഗുണം, ഇരട്ടിപ്പായി, ദ്വിവിധമായി, ഇരട്ടി, ദ്വിപാദക, എരട്ടി

doubly in Sanskrit

doubly, double
द्विगुणम् dviguṇam

Examples of doubly in a sentence

  • All messages on this platform are doubly encrypted to increase security.
  • Deuterium oxide-18 (D₂¹⁸O or ²H₂¹⁸O) is one kind of doubly labeled water.
  • Eight is a doubly even number.

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Synonyms of doubly

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Origin of doubly

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

Words formed from doubly

Words that rhyme with doubly

Questions about doubly

What does doubly mean?
Doubly means in a double manner; with twice the severity or degree.
What is doubly in Urdu?
Doubly in Urdu is دونا (dūnā). See Doubly meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is doubly?
Doubly is an adverb.
How do you pronounce doubly?
Doubly is pronounced /ˈdʌb.li/.

Words near doubly in the dictionary

  1. doubloonie
  2. doubloonies
  3. doubloons
  4. doublure
  5. doublures
  6. doubly
  7. doubly even
  8. doubly incontinent
  9. doubly infinite
  10. doubly labeled water
  11. doubly magic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doubly (page history and authors); دونا (Urdu) (page history and authors); doubly (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); द्विगुणम् (Sanskrit) (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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