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[ohn-lee] / ˈoʊn li /

ADJECTIVE

singular

Synonyms

STRONGEST

alone

WEAK

apart by oneself exclusive individual isolated lone matchless once in a lifetime one one and only one-shot particular peerless single sole solitary solo unaccompanied unequaled unique unparalleled unrivaled

ADVERB

barely; exclusively

Synonyms

STRONGEST

alone entirely hardly merely particularly purely simply solely

STRONG

but just

WEAK

at most nothing but plainly totally uniquely utterly wholly

Antonyms

STRONGEST

incompletely indefinitely

Example Sentences

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Digging is allowed during morning low tide sonly.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 31, 2017

Cornell Sophomore Richard Rusk sent the Sun a sonly note of his own.

From Time Magazine Archive

His mothers too he strove to please With love and sonly courtesies.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

Not truth, or gift, or bended knee, Not honour, worship, lordly fee, Storms heaven and wins a blessing thence Like sonly love and reverence.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

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