single-handedly
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.20 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Alone; without assistance; by oneself.
Example Sentences
- "She single-handedly organized the whole event, and even set up all the chairs herself."
- "Charlie Chaplin, the poignant little tramp with the cane and comic walk who almost single — handedly elevated the novelty entertainment medium of motion pictures into art, died peacefully yesterday at his home in Switzerland[…]"
- "“Despite the surge in prices weighing on their purchasing power, the U.S. consumer now appears to be single-handedly keeping the global economy afloat,” Paul Ashworth, an economist at Capital Economics, wrote in a note."
Etymology
Etymology tree English single-handed Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English single-handedly From single-handed + -ly.