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单词 singularly
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Definition of singularly in English:

singularly

adverb ˈsɪŋɡjələliˈsɪŋɡjələrli
  • 1In a remarkable or noticeable way.

    you have singularly failed to live up to your promises
    as submodifier a singularly unattractive colour
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Part of his job, he says, is to keep the expectations of the fans in check, something that he singularly failed to do when he was manager.
    • At first we were much puzzled as to the origin and constitution of this extraordinary race, points upon which they were singularly uncommunicative.
    • He is an extraordinary man from singularly outstanding origins.
    • If these are the yardsticks for the success of a religion then can it not be concluded that all religions have singularly failed the faithful, given the global spread of destitution and racism?
    • Under his scrutiny Africa in particular is prone to dissolving in a singularly powerful mood of menace, fear, and disgust.
    • But, strategically, it was singularly ill-equipped to live with the kind of wholesale prices that have been reality here for the past few years.
    • Little surprise, then, that yesterday's scoreless draw at Craven Cottage singularly failed to live up to its billing.
    • But of the home favourites, it is Senior who is best placed to give the galleries what they want and he is holding his game together this week in a way that he singularly failed to do on his last outing.
    • They hid me one night in the flat of this sweet old lady, and she showed me photographs of some singularly unattractive children.
    • The hunger for mainland technology stocks reflects the cold reality that alternative investments in the United States look singularly unattractive.
    • She seems to pick the right thing in any restaurant we go to, leaving me looking on enviously as I pick my way through a Chef's Special that singularly fails to live up to its name.
    • A whole array of intellectuals are revealed not merely to be snobs and fuzzy thinkers, but possessed of singularly unattractive opinions based on nothing more than prejudice and stupidity.
    • Unfortunately, this particular copper was singularly unhelpful, refusing to say a word.
    • The post-Second World War ‘Era of Good Feeling’, with its universal consensus that one was singularly lucky to be living in the USA, has disintegrated.
    • The Sunday lunchtime roast is accompanied by live jazz: a singularly soporific treat.
    • They can seem crusty, Eighties phenomena who have singularly failed to get out of their pinstripes, Jermyn Street shirts and carefully-knotted ties.
    • ‘I singularly failed to get an education,’ he says.
    • The first five minutes sent the warning to Kilmarnock which they singularly failed to heed.
    • In fact, once noticed, it seems singularly ubiquitous.
    • Despite natural disasters, despite environmental anxieties, despite the dangers from terrorists, we live in singularly fortunate times.
    Synonyms
    remarkably, extraordinarily, exceptionally, very, extremely, really, outstandingly, strikingly, signally, eminently, especially, particularly, incredibly, awfully, terribly, decidedly, supremely, peculiarly, distinctly, conspicuously
    amazingly, astonishingly, phenomenally, astoundingly, spectacularly, prodigiously, unusually, uncommonly, extra
    Northern English right
    informal tremendously, seriously, majorly, fantastically, terrifically, stupendously
    British informal jolly, dead, well
    North American informal powerful
    1. 1.1 In a strange or eccentric way.
      Charlotte thought her very singularly dressed
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Charlotte thought her very strange-looking and singularly dressed.
      • I think there is something singularly distinctive about the Irish psyche.
 
 

Definition of singularly in US English:

singularly

adverbˈsiNGɡyələrlēˈsɪŋɡjələrli
  • 1In a remarkable or noticeable way.

    you have singularly failed to live up to your promises
    as submodifier a singularly unattractive color
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Under his scrutiny Africa in particular is prone to dissolving in a singularly powerful mood of menace, fear, and disgust.
    • Little surprise, then, that yesterday's scoreless draw at Craven Cottage singularly failed to live up to its billing.
    • He is an extraordinary man from singularly outstanding origins.
    • ‘I singularly failed to get an education,’ he says.
    • In fact, once noticed, it seems singularly ubiquitous.
    • Unfortunately, this particular copper was singularly unhelpful, refusing to say a word.
    • Part of his job, he says, is to keep the expectations of the fans in check, something that he singularly failed to do when he was manager.
    • Despite natural disasters, despite environmental anxieties, despite the dangers from terrorists, we live in singularly fortunate times.
    • They hid me one night in the flat of this sweet old lady, and she showed me photographs of some singularly unattractive children.
    • But, strategically, it was singularly ill-equipped to live with the kind of wholesale prices that have been reality here for the past few years.
    • She seems to pick the right thing in any restaurant we go to, leaving me looking on enviously as I pick my way through a Chef's Special that singularly fails to live up to its name.
    • The first five minutes sent the warning to Kilmarnock which they singularly failed to heed.
    • But of the home favourites, it is Senior who is best placed to give the galleries what they want and he is holding his game together this week in a way that he singularly failed to do on his last outing.
    • If these are the yardsticks for the success of a religion then can it not be concluded that all religions have singularly failed the faithful, given the global spread of destitution and racism?
    • A whole array of intellectuals are revealed not merely to be snobs and fuzzy thinkers, but possessed of singularly unattractive opinions based on nothing more than prejudice and stupidity.
    • The post-Second World War ‘Era of Good Feeling’, with its universal consensus that one was singularly lucky to be living in the USA, has disintegrated.
    • The Sunday lunchtime roast is accompanied by live jazz: a singularly soporific treat.
    • They can seem crusty, Eighties phenomena who have singularly failed to get out of their pinstripes, Jermyn Street shirts and carefully-knotted ties.
    • At first we were much puzzled as to the origin and constitution of this extraordinary race, points upon which they were singularly uncommunicative.
    • The hunger for mainland technology stocks reflects the cold reality that alternative investments in the United States look singularly unattractive.
    Synonyms
    remarkably, extraordinarily, exceptionally, very, extremely, really, outstandingly, strikingly, signally, eminently, especially, particularly, incredibly, awfully, terribly, decidedly, supremely, peculiarly, distinctly, conspicuously
    1. 1.1 In a strange or eccentric way.
      Charlotte thought her very singularly dressed
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I think there is something singularly distinctive about the Irish psyche.
      • Charlotte thought her very strange-looking and singularly dressed.
 
 
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