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Another word for only

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Adjective

  1. Alone in a given category

    Idioms:
    See also:

    include

  2. Without equal or rival

    See also:

    same

Adverb

  1. To the exclusion of anyone or anything else

    See also:

    include

  2. Nothing more than

    See also:

    specific

    include

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Another word for only

Modifier

  1. Solely

    See also:

    singly

    individually

  2. Merely

    See also:

    hardly

  3. Sole

    See also:

    solitary

    alone

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • I only wish there was a real horse here for me to race with.

  • Only Nick noticed her standing in the door.

  • We can only do so much.

  • In despair she had dropped the subject for the time, only to renew it at the first opportunity.

  • If he had been the only child in the family, things might have been different.

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