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 of exclusively

• 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

But those rules don't apply to passengers in taxis, buses, limousines, motor homes or anything that operates exclusively on rails or on water, according to Arizona state statute. —Alexandra Hardle, AZCentral.com, 29 Nov. 2025

Klum, 52, tells PEOPLE exclusively. —Hedy Phillips, PEOPLE, 29 Nov. 2025

The chart appears partially on Billboard‘s official website, where the top 25 positions can be viewed, while the full list is exclusively available on Billboard Colombia‘s site. —Sigal Ratner-Arias, Billboard, 27 Nov. 2025

Many of these ingredients are imported from Italy, including the flour, which comes from a family-run mill in Le Marche; the tomatoes are sourced from Campiagna in Southern Italy; and the olive oil is made in Puglia (Italy’s olive heartland) exclusively for them. —Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 27 Nov. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1650, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for exclusively

• unobtrusively
• conclusively
• effusively
• inclusively