universally
/ˌjunɪˈvɝsəli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.63 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
By everyone or by the vast majority of people.
Example Sentences
- "My experience of the people was that they were universally polite, civil, and clean, and during the whole time I spent in the country, I only saw one drunken man."
- "If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […] ."
- "The movie was universally praised by its audience."
- "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
- "Each written word when spoken is mutually incomprehensible between a Mandarin speaker in Beijing and a Cantonese speaker in Hong Kong. If you think that’s odd, consider our number system: the symbol “9” is universally recognized but it’s pronounced “nine” in English and “devet” in Slovenian."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: universally
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌjunɪˈvɝsəli/
- British English: /ˌjuːnɪˈvɜːsəli/
Inflected Forms
more universally (comparative)
most universally (superlative)