Meaning & use

uniquely

adverb·Academic

In a way that is unlike anything else; distinctively.

See it in a sentence

The chef uniquely combines local ingredients with techniques from his grandmother's kitchen.

Her uniquely calm approach to crises made her the team's natural leader.

A note on using this word

Because unique already means one of a kind, careful writers avoid pairing uniquely with intensifiers like very or most.

Words with a similar meaning

distinctivelysingularly

Choose a synonym to suit the sentence. Meanings can overlap without being identical.

Words with an opposite meaning

typicallycommonly

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