Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: singularly
IPA transcription: [s'ɪŋɡjəlɚli]
r meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: singularly
    Meaning: in a singular manner or to a singular degree; "Lord T. was considered singularly licentious even for the courts of Russia and Portugal; he acquired three wives and fourteen children during his Portuguese embassy alone"
Usage examples
  • He was singularly tall and thin.
  • I felt singularly aroused, startled, fascinated.
  • Circumstances rendered this sister singularly dear to the author.
  • Of my share in discovering the secret chamber they have been singularly silent.
  • I don't mean that my memory is weak. On the contrary, it is singularly tenacious.
  • But in this respect he is singularly free, and his spells of anger are really few.
  • The cat, unlike most animals, seems singularly exempt from the pains of parturition.
  • But the point in which the Americans singularly distanced the Europeans was in the science of gunnery.
  • Commander of the faithful, the relation which I am about to give your majesty is singularly extraordinary.
  • Leonardo's and all the ancient doctrines of colour had been singularly wrong; colour is not in the object but in the light.