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handedly

handedly

55 8.0
In a way made by hand rather than by machine
  • adverb
  • /ˈhændɪdli/
: a mano
  • With her determination, she single-handedly organized the charity event to support local families.
  • single-handedly
  • even-handedly
  • heavy-handedly

I mean, he's sort of single handedly like created a whole new genre of running.

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Examples

  • You single-handedly saved the museum.

  • You have single handedly been ushering this into reality.

  • Do you feel that you are single handedly trying to keep this art alive?

  • You are single handedly being my therapy today.

  • I have a lot of product and there's no way I can single handedly get through multiple nine month products.

  • For five decades, she had single-handedly controlled the fate of the business she had created.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • I can, however, tell you that these photos single-handedly convinced me to write this piece.

    Blog text (14)
  • He pretty much single handedly led the fight against Bechtel.

  • Steven Gerrard almost single handedly won a Champions League with Liverpool.

  • Single-handedly, my new teacher provided me with personalized assistance that I had dreamed of.

    Academic text (2008)

Synonyms

by hand
vshandedly
114 2.0

To do something with your hands, for example writing or making things, instead of with a machine

is mainly a compound form that indicates doing something by manual action

How Manual

handedly
55 8.0
manually
75 3.5
mechanically
15 3.7
automatically
  • Specialized
161 3.1

Surface Forms

handedly positive

Morphology

handedly = handed (transparent) = hand + ed + ly

This is a regular -ly adverb formation based on the adjective 'handed', whose meaning is itself built transparently from 'hand' + -ed.

Etymology

Handedly comes from the simple English word hand, which means the body part you use to hold things 'hand', plus the ending -ly that shows how something is done. So, handedly means 'by hand' or in a way that uses the hands.