What part of speech is doubly?

Doubly can be categorized as an adverb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. doubly is an adverb.

Inflections

Adjective to adverb

  • Adjective
    Adverb
  • double 
    doubly
  • adjective: double 
  • adverb: doubly

What does doubly mean?

Definitions

Adverb

doubly - to double the degree; "she was doubly rewarded"; "his eyes were double bright"
doubly - in a twofold manner; "he was doubly wrong"

Examples of doubly

#   Sentence  
1. adv. She was doubly rewarded.
2. adv. He was doubly wrong.
3. adv. I'm doubly disappointed on the lack of improvement from my team.
4. adv. The tropical forests contain a half of the species in the world, so their disappearance is doubly damaging, and it is astonishing but true that our civilisation, whose imagination has reached the boundaries of the universe, does not know, to within a factor of ten, how many species the earth supports.
Sentence  
adv.
She was doubly rewarded.
He was doubly wrong.
I'm doubly disappointed on the lack of improvement from my team.
The tropical forests contain a half of the species in the world, so their disappearance is doubly damaging, and it is astonishing but true that our civilisation, whose imagination has reached the boundaries of the universe, does not know, to within a factor of ten, how many species the earth supports.

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