exclusively

English

Etymology

From Middle English exclusyvely; equivalent to exclusive +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪkˈskluːsɪvli/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: ex‧clu‧sive‧ly

Adverb

exclusively (comparative more exclusively, superlative most exclusively)

1. (focus) to the exclusion of anything or anyone else; solely or entirely

   These new shoes are made exclusively out of recycled cardboard.

   • 1952 February, H. C. Casserley, “Permanent Wayfarings”, in Railway Magazine, page 78:

     Every photographer of experience has his own theories and methods of working, but for the last 14 years I have used a Leica exclusively, and have found it best adapted to the somewhat exacting demands of railway photography, which is by no means an easy branch of the art.

Synonyms

• See: Thesaurus:solely

Translations

to the exclusion of anything or anyone else

• Afrikaans: uitsluitend, eksklusief
• Armenian: բացառապես (hy) (bacʻaṙapes)
• Belarusian: выклю́чна (vykljúčna)
• Catalan: exclusivament (ca)
• Danish: udelukkende
• Dutch: uitsluitend (nl), exclusief (nl)
• Esperanto: ekskluzive
• Finnish: yksinoikeudella
• French: exclusivement (fr), uniquement (fr)
• Galician: exclusivamente
• German: ausschließlich (de), exklusiv (de), allein (de), alleinig (de)
• Greek: αποκλειστικά (el) (apokleistiká)
• Hungarian: kizárólag (hu)
• Ido: exkluzive (io)
• Italian: esclusivamente (it), unicamente (it)
• Polish: wyłącznie (pl)
• Portuguese: exclusivamente (pt)
• Russian: исключи́тельно (ru) (isključítelʹno)
• Spanish: exclusivamente (es)
• Swedish: uteslutande (sv)
• Ukrainian: ви́ключно (výključno)
• Vietnamese: duy nhất (vi)