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Princeton's WordNet

  1. evenly, equallyadverb

    in equal amounts or shares; in a balanced or impartial way

    "a class evenly divided between girls and boys"; "they split their winnings equally"; "deal equally with rich and poor"

  2. evenlyadverb

    in a level and regular way

Wiktionary

  1. evenlyadverb

    So as to make flat.

    Spread the icing evenly over the cake.

  2. evenlyadverb

    In a fair manner.

    To avoid arguments, he divided the sweets evenly between his two children.

  3. evenlyadverb

    In a manner that leaves no remainder.

    12 is evenly divisible by 2, 3, 4 and 6.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Evenlyadjective

    Etymology: from even.

    In an infinite chaos nothing could be formed; no particles could convene by mutual attraction; for every one there must have infinite matter around it, and therefore must rest for ever, being evenly balanced between infinite attractions. Richard Bentley.

    The first shall be a palish clearness, evenly and smoothly spread; not overthin and washy, but of a pretty solid consistence. Henry Wotton.

    The upper face of the sea is known to be level by nature, and evenly distant from the center, and waxes deeper and deeper the farther one saileth from the shore. Edward Brerewood.

    You serve a great and gracious master, and there is a most hopeful young prince: it behoves you to carry yourself wisely and evenly between them both. Francis Bacon, Advice to Villiers.

ChatGPT

  1. evenly

    Evenly can be defined as uniformly arranged or distributed in a balanced or equal manner. It could refer to anything from tangible objects to abstract concepts being spread out or divided such that there is no favoritism, unevenness, or irregularity. It can also mean happening at regular intervals or progressing at a steady level or pace.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Evenlyadverb

    with an even, level, or smooth surface; without roughness, elevations, or depression; uniformly; equally; comfortably; impartially; serenely

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Anagrams for evenly »

  1. Evelyn

  2. levyne

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of evenly in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of evenly in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of evenly in a Sentence

  1. Matt Duchene:

    Were so evenly matched, I find, with the way we both play and theres not much room out there. Theres no one really taking over the game, its such a stalemate out there and Im not surprised it went to overtime back-to-back games.

  2. Christian Yates:

    What we've been able to tease out from the mathematical model is it's not necessarily that these cells are migrating in a directed way, actually these cells are diffusing, there's no direction to their migration. It's like when you put a drop of milk into a cup of coffee that you haven't stirred. Eventually that milk will be spread evenly throughout your coffee, and these cells are doing the same sort of thing - they're moving in an undirected manner and eventually, slowly, they manage to fully colonize the skin of this animal.

  3. House Intelligence:

    Senate Republicans have a tough case to make, because they voted down an independent commission that would be evenly divided between the parties, but the underlying message is they don't want an examination of what happened on January 6.

  4. Greg Smith:

    What we see is that the vast majority of the American public, 80%, say (a candidate being Jewish) would not make a difference in their vote, one way or the other, the remainder are pretty much evenly divided between those who say they would be more likely to vote for a Jewish candidate and those who say they would be less likely to vote for a Jewish candidate.

  5. Michael Wachs:

    My wife and I have the same tastes so we'll probably split the reading work in half evenly and then each come back with our 20 favorites and narrow it down from there.

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Translations for evenly

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  • равномерно, точно, равно, поравно, справедливоBulgarian
  • rovnoměrně, spravedlivěCzech
  • uniformemente, equitativamente, divisible exactoSpanish
  • uniformémentFrench
  • likt, jevntNorwegian
  • на́цело, ро́вно, равноме́рно, по́ровнуRussian
  • jämntSwedish

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