single-handedly
single-handedly adverb: alone; without assistance; by oneself.
Adverb
single-handedly (not comparable)
- Alone; without assistance; by oneself.
- She single-handedly organized the whole event, and even set up all the chairs herself.
- Charlie Chaplin, the poignant little tramp with the cane and comic walk who almost single — handedly elevated the novelty entertainment medium of motion pictures into art, died peacefully yesterday at his home in Switzerland[…]1977 December 26, “Charlie Chaplin Dead at 88; Made the Film an Art Form”, in The New York Times
- Synonyms:
- alone, by oneself, by one's lonesome, on one's lonesome, on one's own, single-handed, singly, unaidedly, unassisted, unassistedly
Synonyms of single-handedly
Forms of single-handedly
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Origin of single-handedly
From single-handed + -ly.
Questions about single-handedly
- What does single-handedly mean?
- Single-handedly means alone; without assistance; by oneself.
- What part of speech is single-handedly?
- Single-handedly is an adverb.
Words near single-handedly in the dictionary
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