Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

double-handedly

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.19 in modern English

Syllables: dou-ble-hand-ed-ly
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

Using two people.

adv

Using both hands at the same time.

adv

By means of two approaches or agents

adv

Duplicitously or hypocritically.

Example Sentences

"Dinghies are designed to be sailed single-handedly or double-handedly, but some larger cruising dinghies may have room for four or more people on board."
"Working double-handedly also conserves your hands in large kneading strokes, for example when you are working on the adductors on the inside of the thigh."
"I said I was writing my memoirs, a choppy musical dedicated to counterpoint, without the axes of time and place, collapsing in upon itself because the notes will inevitably run out, returning, elaborating, crisscrossing, double-handedly creating variations upon a theme."
"The combination of discontent and economic collapse brought about the revolution. It did not do so simply double-handedly."
"NATO works double-handedly against Albanians and Serbs."

Etymology

From double-handed + -ly.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: double-handed

Inflected Forms

more double-handedly (comparative) most double-handedly (superlative) doublehandedly (alternative)

Questions

What does double-handedly mean?: Using two people.
Where does double-handedly come from?: From double-handed + -ly.

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