single-handedly

adverbattested in dialogue

Alone; without assistance; by oneself.

adverb

1
Alone; without assistance; by oneself.
She single-handedly organized the whole event, and even set up all the chairs herself.
Charlie Chaplin, the poignant little tramp with the cane and comic walk who almost single — handedly elevated the novelty entertainment medium of motion pictures into art, died peacefully yesterday at his home in Switzerland[…]
“Despite the surge in prices weighing on their purchasing power, the U.S. consumer now appears to be single-handedly keeping the global economy afloat,” Paul Ashworth, an economist at Capital Economics, wrote in a note.

Etymology

Etymology tree English single-handed Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English single-handedly From single-handed + -ly.

singing · The act of using the voice to produce musical sounds;…single · Not accompanied by anything else; one in number.Single · A surname from Old English.

single-handedly · Alone; without assistance; by oneself.

singles · Of or pertaining to unmarried people.singular · Being only one of a larger population; single, individual.sinister · Inauspicious, ominous, unlucky, illegitimate.

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