SINGULARLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does singularly mean? 

• SINGULARLY (adverb)
  The adverb SINGULARLY has 1 sense:

1. in a singular manner or to a singular degree

  Familiarity information: SINGULARLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SINGULARLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a singular manner or to a singular degree

Context example:

Lord T. was considered singularly licentious even for the courts of Russia and Portugal; he acquired three wives and fourteen children during his Portuguese embassy alone

Pertainym:

singular (unusual or striking)

 Context examples 

It was reported by those who encountered them in their Sunday walks, that they said nothing, looked singularly dull and would hail with obvious relief the appearance of a friend.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“And a singularly consistent investigation you have made, my dear Watson,” said he.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And how singularly strange that it should fall to her lot to discover it!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I do not profess to be a judge of such things, but they appeared to me to be singularly wanting in merit.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have already made some inquiries at a clerical agency, and they tell me that there was a man of that name in orders, whose career has been a singularly dark one.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"She has been so singularly backward where men are concerned that I have been worried greatly."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

What a singularly deep impression her injustice seems to have made on your heart!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

This part of the Rhine, indeed, presents a singularly variegated landscape.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I began, by being singularly cheerful and light-hearted; all sorts of half-forgotten things to talk about, came rushing into my mind, and made me hold forth in a most unwonted manner.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)