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

Unlike other customer satisfaction surveys, the Airline Quality Rating exclusively uses government data that airlines must report monthly. —Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025

Character details for the new faces are under wraps, as Deadline exclusively reported. —Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 13 Sep. 2025

Those posts have sometimes involved Eze, because of his footballing journey, but have not exclusively focused on him. —Art De Roché, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025

The first episode of The Penthouse launched on Friday, and new episodes will arrive every Friday on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, while full video episodes can be exclusively found on YouTube. —Mckinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 12 Sep. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1650, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for exclusively

• unobtrusively
• conclusively
• effusively
• inclusively