doubly
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3.2
- adverb
- /ˈdʌbli/
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doblemente
- "Then you got to be doubly sure you want to go there." Tom looked down at his feet.
- doubly disadvantaged
- doubly at risk
- make matters doubly
The slave is in a doubly bad condition.
- The slave is in a doubly bad condition.
- And I found that to be so crazy, Like doubly crazy, right?
- And when it comes to skin care and cosmetic stuff, that rule is doubly important for me.
- And given that this is a class full of future leaders, we bear this burden doubly.
- What I saw in meetings, the fact that he didn't care whether people wanted to work with him or not, made them doubly anxious to work with him.
- I also found that as a immigrant man, I was taught that talking about emotions was doubly weak.
- This is doubly and triply true for kids that come from chaotic poor neighborhoods where they don't know anyone who's been to college.
- They will then get doubly angry at you, and they will then criticize and impugn the person who had the audacity to call them out.
- So perhaps I cried for the invisible what I could not see doubly.
- So you've sent me back a doubly locked value queen to the K to the J.
Examples
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l will make doubly sure.
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I am particularly delighted that you did work doubly hard and that we have you here with us.
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And it's doubly small when you square it.
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And I found that to be so crazy, Like doubly crazy, right?
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Not to mention doubly dangerous.
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And the challenge here was doubly bad because doing both things at the same time was really nasty.
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Having been promised that technology would save us time, we are doubly disappointed when it does not.
Academic text (1999) -
Then it is doubly his duty to be sure that the law is obeyed.
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Therefore, it was doubly important for liberals to contain the church's social power.
Academic text (1999) -
She was doubly grateful for the support of her friends during her difficult time.
Compounds
- Specialized
A verb that takes two objects, one showing who receives something and one showing what is received
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Etymology
Doubly comes from double ('two' or 'twice') plus the ending -ly, which makes it an adverb. So doubly means 'in a twofold way' or 'twice as much', which helps explain uses like 'doubly careful' or 'doubly happy'.