doubly
/ˈdʌb.li/ adverb
- adverb (usually of relative importance, of degree, quantity or measure) In a double manner; with twice the severity or degree. “My mother was always doubly careful when winding the grandfather clock.”
- adverb In two ways “Stealing and then lying about it is doubly wrong.”
- adverb (obsolete) with duplicity
Synonyms
double dually deceptively double-handedly duplicitously twofold twice in two ways
Etymology
From Middle English dowbly, doubli, dubli, doubeliche, equivalent to double + -ly.
Webster’s 1913
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “doubly”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details