exclusively

adverb

ex·​clu·​sive·​ly ik-ˈsklü-siv-lē 

-ziv-

: in an exclusive manner : in a way limited to a single person, group, category, method, etc.

an exclusively male/female clientele

I started working exclusively as an actor when I was 25 years old, and I had a good life.

—Bryan Cranston

With richer soil than New England, the Middle Colonies devoted themselves more exclusively to agriculture.

—Harold Underwood Faulkner et al.

"In some industries," says [Larry] Page, who spoke exclusively with TIME about the new venture, "it takes 10 or 20 years to go from an idea to something being real …"

—Harry McCracken and Lev Grossman

Synonyms

• solely
• only
• purely
• just
• simply

Examples of exclusively in a Sentence

his best paintings are the ones that he did exclusively for the sheer pleasure they gave him

Recent Examples on the Web

Their reported split comes after PEOPLE exclusively revealed on July 9 that Natasha was departing her role at Kensington Palace after 15 years of service, to set up her own private consultancy firm. —Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025

News voices in the 1970's tended to be somber, accent-less, and almost exclusively male. —Scott Simon, NPR, 6 Sep. 2025

Parmigiano Reggiano has been produced for nearly 1,000 years exclusively in the Italian provinces of Parma, Reggio Emilia, Modena, Mantua to the right of the Po River and Bologna to the left of the Reno River. —Tim Newcomb, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025

The film casted exclusively from theater groups across different states to represent the linguistic diversity found in Indian prisons. —Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1650, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for exclusively

• unobtrusively
• conclusively
• effusively
• inclusively