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Definition: Singularly |
SingularlyAdverb1. In a singular manner or to a singular degree; "Lord T. was considered singularly licentious even for the courts of Russia and Portugal; he acquired three wives and fourteen children during his Portuguese embassy alone". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "singularly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Greatness | Particularly, remarkably, singularly, curiously, uncommonly, unusually, peculiarly, notably, signally, strikingly, pointedly, mainly, chiefly; famously, egregiously, prominently, glaringly, emphatically, gr/kat exochin/, strangely, wonderfully, amazingly, surprisingly, astonishingly, incredibly, marvelously, awfully, stupendously. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Singularly |
| English words defined with "singularly": unappealing ♦ Water vine. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "singularly": Honeysuckle ♦ JESTER ♦ Obsolete ♦ Seine ♦ War. (references) |
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Screenplays | That was Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell, a song in which Joni complains they 'Paved paradise to put up a parking lot', a measure which actually would have alleviated traffic congestion on the outskirts of paradise, something which Joni singularly fails to point out, perhaps because it doesn't quite fit in with her blinkered view of the world. (I'm Alan Partridge; writing credit: Peter Baynham; Steve Coogan) | |
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A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Singularly low, as if instead of being so close beside him, it were at a distance. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | By the side of her shadow, the moon marked out distinctly upon the sward another shadow singularly frightful and terrible, a shadow with a round hat. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The various shades of the sand are singularly rich and agreeable, embracing the different iron colors, brown, gray, yellowish, and reddish. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones. The devil casting a seine of lace, (With precious stones 'twas weighted) Drew it into the landing place And its contents calculated. All souls of women were in that sack -- A draft miraculous, precious! But ere he could throw it across his back They'd all escaped through the meshes. Baruch de Loppis |
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Martin van Buren | 1837-1841 | How imperious, then, is the obligation imposed upon every citizen, in his own sphere of action, whether limited or extended, to exert himself in perpetuating a condition of things so singularly happy! |
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| "Singularly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Singularly" is used about 196 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 196 | 21,868 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "singularly": singularly-depressed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "singularly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 单一地 (solely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | erikoisen sopiva (particularly suited, singularly adapted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | singularisch (singular). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 일하게 (solely, uniquely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | dy neuchadjin (uncommonly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ingularlysay исключительно (exceptionally, exclusively, notably, only, solely). (various references) u jednini, pojedinačno (individually, severally, singly), osobeno (racily), jedinstveno (solely). (various references) particularmente (in particular, particularly, peculiarly, specially). (various references) ensamt (lone). (various references) самостійно (absolutely, on one's own, singly, solely), незвичайно (curiously, extraordinarily, uncommonly), дивно (amazingly, curiously, funnily, oddly, peculiarly, strangely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Singularly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: singulary, singulauly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "singularly" (pronounced si"nggyulerlē) |
| 7 | -g y u l er l ē | irregularly, regularly. |
| 6 | -y u l er l ē | circularly, extracellularly, particularly, popularly, spectacularly. |
| 5 | -u l er l ē | similarly. |
| 4 | -l er l ē | scholarly. |
| 3 | -er l ē | bitterly, brotherly, cleverly, disorderly, eagerly, easterly, elderly, entirely, fatherly, formerly, gingerly, grandfatherly, grandmotherly, improperly, lawyerly, leisurely, linearly, masterly, miserly, motherly, neighborly, northeasterly, northerly, northwesterly, orderly, overly, painterly, peculiarly, properly, quarterly, soberly, somberly, southerly, tenderly, utterly, Weatherly, westerly. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-l-l-n-r-s-u-y" | |
-1 letter: insularly, rallyings. | |
-2 letters: alluring, linguals, rallying, sallying, signally, singular, slangily, sullying. | |
-3 letters: allying, angrily, argylls, insular, langurs, ligular, ligulas, lingual, lugsail, lungyis, nilgaus, rulings, slaying, surlily, syringa, uranyls, urinals. | |
-4 letters: algins, aligns, argils, argyll, gainly, gallus, glairs, glairy, gluily, gnarls, gnarly, grails, grains, grainy, grills, grisly, inlays, langur, lasing, laying, liangs, ligans, ligula, lingas. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-l-l-n-r-s-u-y" | |
+4 letters: vaingloriously. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 69 6E 67 75 6C 61 72 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .. -. --. ..- .-.. .- .-. .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101001 01101110 01100111 01110101 01101100 01100001 01110010 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S i n g u l a r l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0069 006E 0067 0075 006C 0061 0072 006C 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53758073877867847891 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , kiinalainen, Chinesisch, 중국, Sheenish, Sheenagh, китайский, китаец, kineski jezik, kineski, chino, kinesisk, китаянка, китайська мова, китайський, кита"ць |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | 芬蘭語 , 芬兰语, suomi, suomalainen, finnisch, 핀란", Fynlannish, Fynlannagh, финский, finski jezik, finski, finlandés, finés, finsk, фінська мова, фінський |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , saksalainen, 독일, Germaanish, Germaanagh, Garmane, Carmane, немецкий, germanski, alemán, tysk, німкеня, німецький, німець |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , koreanisch, Koreaner, 한국, кореец, корейский, korejski, korejski jezik, koreanac, coreano, koreansk, кореянка, коре"ць, корейська мова, корейський |
Manx | fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght | manx, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, язык жителей о-ва мэн, с о-ва мэн, s ostrva mana, los habitantes de la isla de man, lengua de la isla de man, de la isla de man, från ön man, менський, менський діалект |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, venäläinen, Russe, russisch, 러시아, Rooshish, Rooshagh, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ryss, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | 塞"维亚-克罗地亚语, 塞爾維亞克羅地亞語 , serbokroatisch, 세르보크로아티아, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, espanjalainen, spanisch, 스페인, Spaainish, Spaainagh, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, ruotsalainen, schwedisch, 스웨덴, Soolynish, Soolynagh, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, шведська мова, шведський |
Ukrainian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | 乌克兰, ukrainalainen, ukrainisch, ukrainerin, Ukrainer, Ookraanagh, Ookraanish, украинский язык, украинский, украинец украинский, ukrajinski, ukrajina, ucranio, ukrainare, український, українець |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englantia, englantilainen, englisch, 영국, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, engelsk, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
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