How do you pronounce evenly?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈiːvənli/.

Where does evenly come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

evenly

/ˈiːvənli/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.65 in modern English

Syllables: even-ly
IPA: /ˈiːvənli/

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Meaning

adv

So as to form a flat surface.

adv

In a fair manner of distribution, giving the same amount or number to each; equally.

adv

In a manner that leaves no remainder.

adv

In terms of or by means of even numbers.

Example Sentences

"Spread the icing evenly over the cake."
"To avoid arguments, he divided the sweets evenly between his two children."
"12 is evenly divisible by 2, 3, 4 and 6."
"The oddly counted lords are always out of sync with at least one other evenly counted cycle. These two strange counts assured that at no single moment could all cycles end at the same time for an extraordinarily long time, for at least one odd count threw off all the even ones."

Etymology

From Middle English evenly, evenliche, from Old English efenlīċe (“evenly, alike, equally”), equivalent to even + -ly.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: evenly, efenlīċe

Inflected Forms

more evenly (comparative) most evenly (superlative)

Derived Forms

unevenly

Phrases

evenly divisible evenly even evenly odd

Synonyms

equally

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