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trebly

trebly adjective: having treble, or high-pitched, qualities.

Adjective

trebly (comparative treblier or more trebly, superlative trebliest or most trebly)

  1. Having treble, or high-pitched, qualities.
    • With the room so bare, Ivret’s voice sounded different, trebly echoes ringing off her sibilants.2024, Scott Alexander Howard, The Other Valley, Atlantic Books (2025), page 162

Adverb

trebly (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Three times, thrice
    Synonyms:
    thricely
  2. To three times the extent or degree; triply.
    • For my part, I must do my best to save this fellow's trebly worthless life; Jim, you get me a basin.1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, Cignet Classic, published 1998, page 13
    • The task was made trebly difficult, however, by the badly run-down condition in which the railways of Britain had been unavoidably left at the end of the war in 1945, […].1958 January, 'Borderer', “Ten Years of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 12

Synonyms of trebly

Forms of trebly

comparativetreblier
comparativemore trebly
superlativetrebliest
superlativemost trebly

Origin of trebly

From treble + -ly.

Questions about trebly

What does trebly mean?
Trebly means having treble, or high-pitched, qualities.
What part of speech is trebly?
Trebly can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near trebly in the dictionary

  1. treblier
  2. trebliest
  3. trebling
  4. treblings
  5. Treblinka
  6. trebly
  7. trebouxioid
  8. trebouxiophycean
  9. trebouxiophyceans
  10. trebouxiophyte
  11. trebouxiophytes

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