SOLELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does solely mean? 

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

1. without any others being included or involved

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOLELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without any others being included or involved

Synonyms:

alone; entirely; exclusively; only; solely

Context example:

a privilege granted only to him

Pertainym:

sole (not divided or shared with others)

 Context examples 

Of course I shall observe your directions, in considering the matter as one to be arranged between you and me solely, and not to be referred to, up at the Doctor's.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Having this thought in mind, the story of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was written solely to please children of today.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

This substance is solely used for research purposes to induce tumors in experimental animals.

(Nitrosodipropylamine, NCI Thesaurus)

The discovery suggests that the suspected cause of an odontoma isn't tied solely to traits in modern species, as had been thought.

(Scientists discover fossil tumor in 255 million-year-old mammal forerunner, NSF)

It had been my doing, solely mine.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

These two planets will orbit close to each other (within a tight mathematical orbit), so that means you don’t have to focus solely on those three days I listed.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I shall now live solely for my family.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The team corrected for these and other factors to estimate how much of the height increase was solely due to water loss from rock.

(Sierras Lost Water Weight, Grew Taller During Drought, NASA)

My attention at this time was solely directed towards my plan of introducing myself into the cottage of my protectors.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Squalene synthase catalyzes the dimerization of farnesyl-pyrophosphate to squalene, the first step in the cholesterol biosynthetic pathway that is solely committed to the production of cholesterol.

(Lapaquistat, NCI Thesaurus)