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View synonyms for doubly

doubly

[ duhb-lee ]

adverb

  1. to a double measure or degree:

    to be doubly cautious.

  2. in a double manner.
  3. Obsolete. with duplicity.


doubly

/ ˈdʌblɪ /

adverb

  1. to or in a double degree, quantity, or measure

    doubly careful

  2. in two ways

    doubly wrong



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Word History and Origins

Origin of doubly1

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; double, -ly

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Example Sentences

Hearing a teacher call your child out for not paying attention might make you feel doubly shamed — on behalf of your kid and yourself.

As a female travel writer, I’m always looking for ways to be self-sufficient, especially when I’m on the road—doubly so during the current pandemic.

This ability to engage the upper body makes an upright bike doubly space-efficient since it may eliminate the need for other types of equipment.

Students and professors are doubly exhausted, from the strain of the forced switch to online courses and from the sacrifices required to stay safe in places that managed to preserve at least a slice of in-person education.

Doing so against the headwinds of a pandemic makes doing so doubly tough.

Perhaps made doubly frightening because not only does the old man frighten Garfield and Odie, but he steals their candy as well.

First, doubly punishing the aforementioned players would definitely raise howls from their union, the NFL Players Association.

When women are seen as a source of honor, they risk being doubly victimized.

Norman Manea grew up doubly cursed: first he had to survive the Nazis and then the communist dictators in his native Romania.

If people say there loved one is dead, they are doubly traumatizing these people.

Instantly Longcluse had used his revolver; but before he could make assurance doubly sure, his quick ear detected a step outside.

She did leap them, running from one to another in a manner confusing to herself and doubly so to Dorothy, pursuing.

There are few greater annoyances of life than an irritable woman, rendered doubly morose by the infirmities of years.

If the tobacco of the tropics is fragrant while growing, it is doubly so after being harvested and carried to the sheds.

Mrs. Dodd posted her letter herself, and to make assurance doubly sure she registered it.

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