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🔊 With high tones 3️⃣ Three times more
trebly

trebly

7.9
Three times as much or as many
  • adverb
  • /ˈtrɛbli/
  • Archaic
translation icon : triple
  • He earned trebly the amount he did last year.

Examples

  • Profits have grown trebly since the launch of the new product line.

  • Her efforts were trebly rewarded with recognition, promotion, and a bonus.

  • The workload increased trebly after the company expanded its operations.

  • The results were trebly impressive compared to last time.

  • The new marketing strategy has increased sales trebly over the past quarter.

  • After the upgrade, the system's efficiency improved trebly compared to its previous version.

  • To accommodate the larger audience, we had to prepare trebly the amount of seating and supplies.

Synonyms

threefold
vstrebly
2 3.9

Three times as many or as much

is identical in meaning but differs as an alternate form
trifold
vstrebly
5.6

Three times the normal amount or size

is identical in meaning but differs as an alternate form

How Many

fourfold
1 4.7
trebly
  • Archaic
7.9
twice
∞ 1.0
once
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

trebly positive

Morphology

trebly = treble (semi-transparent) = treble + ly

The derivation 'treble' + '-ly' is regular, but this sense requires knowing the less-common numeric sense of 'treble' ('threefold'), which many learners may not possess.

Etymology

Trebly comes from treble, which originally meant 'threefold' and is like the word triple. So to do something trebly is to do it 'three times' as much.