Meaning & use
uniquely
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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