solitarily

adverb

Definition of solitarilynext
as in singly

Related Words

Relevance

Dissimilar Words

Example Sentences

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of solitarily Kids scattered all over the world were listening deeply and solitarily in headphones—and swapping songs and opinions about those songs online. — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for solitarily
  1. singly
  2. separately
  3. exclusively
  4. individually
  5. distinctly
  6. alone
  7. singularly
  8. solely
Adverb
  • Plant singly as an accent or mass in mixed borders and privacy plantings.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 24 July 2026
  • When eggs or embryos are destroyed as the result of commercial egg storage tank failures, lawsuits may follow, singly, as a group, or in a class action.
    — Robert W. Wood, Forbes.com, 6 May 2026
Definition of singly
Adverb
  • President Karol Nawrocki, who belongs to PiS, was elected separately last year.
    — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 1 Nov. 2026
  • Instead of programming the system separately for object recognition, motion tracking, or distance estimation, the team trained F³ to predict future events based on previous signals.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of separately
Adverb
  • The bath products are from one of my favorite local producers, Harnn, who created a scent exclusively for Kromo.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Nov. 2026
  • The Cybertruck is exclusively produced at the company's plant in Texas alongside the Tesla Model Y and two-seat Cybercab, which Musk has touted as a crucial product for the automaker moving forward.
    — Michael Wayland,Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of exclusively
Adverb
  • Right guard Robert Hunt, who’s individually struggled this year but as a leader of the team has answered to questions of his and his unit’s play all season, had very few words.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Attackers were always stitching together remote vulnerabilities with privilege-escalation bugs that individually looked harmless.
    — Rohit Dhamankar, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of individually
Adverb
  • Industry expectations are distinctly low for the Japanese government’s ambitious plans to support overseas sales of domestic content.
    — Gavin J Blair, HollywoodReporter, 2 Nov. 2026
  • This distinctly North Korean punishment, used especially to discipline and defenestrate high officials, strips a person of office and sends him to perform physical labor and political reeducation, often in the countryside.
    — Jieun Baek, Foreign Affairs, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of distinctly
Adverb
  • This approach extends capacity beyond what manufacturers could achieve through shrinking a flat arrangement of cells alone.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Each contributed something the others could not accomplish alone.
    — Joey Saban, New York Daily News, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of alone
Adverb
  • After recent seasons of attempting to singularly lift the Milwaukee Bucks, Antetokounmpo found himself not only again in the midst of heavy lifting, but this time also second best on the court.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 21 Oct. 2026
  • That the university is prepared to sacrifice a vital cultural resource in order to save a relatively small amount of money strikes me — and others as singularly short-sighted and ill-advised.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of singularly
Adverb
  • However, this also means that Googlebooks are limited solely to running Android apps.
    — Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026
  • When comparing lenders, Miranda advises not to focus solely on the advertised interest rate.
    — Dan Avery, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of solely

Browse Nearby Words

solitaries
solitarily
solitariness
See all Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Solitarily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/solitarily. Accessed 8 Nov. 2026.

Copy Citation
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences

Popular in Grammar & Usage

See More

How to Use 'Who' vs. 'Whom'

Merriam-Webster’s Great Big List of Words You Love to Hate

'Affect' vs. 'Effect'

'A' or 'an'? What about before 'h'? An Indefinite Article Guide

Why is '-ed' sometimes pronounced at the end of a word?
See More

Popular in Wordplay

See More

Great Big List of Beautiful and Useless Words, Vol. 5

9 Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't

7 Words for Old-Timey Vehicles

The Words of the Week - Nov. 6

12 Lovely and Unusual Words for the Natural World
See More

Popular

See More

How to Use 'Who' vs. 'Whom'

Great Big List of Beautiful and Useless Words, Vol. 5

9 Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't
See More

Games & Quizzes

See All
Play Quordle: Guess all four words in a limited number of tries. Each of your guesses must be a real 5-letter word.
Quordle Can you solve 4 words at once?
Play Blossom: Solve today's spelling word game by finding as many words as you can using just 7 letters. Longer words score more points.
Blossom Pick the best words!
Play Missing Letter: a crossword with a twist. Each of the 25 puzzle words start with a different letter of the alphabet. Which letter is missing?
The Missing Letter A daily crossword with a twist
woman sitting on floor holding book in front of her face on pink background
Famous Novels, Last Lines Quiz Needless to say, spoiler alert.
See All