universally

From Middle English universally; equivalent to universal +‎ -ly.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌjunɪˈvɝsəli/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌjuːnɪˈvɜːsəli/

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• Hyphenation: u‧ni‧ver‧sal‧ly

universally (comparative more universally, superlative most universally)

1. In a universal manner.
   • 1909, John Claude White, Sikhim and Bhutan, page 12:

     My experience of the people was that they were universally polite, civil, and clean, and during the whole time I spent in the country, I only saw one drunken man.

   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion‎^[1]:

     If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […] .

2. By everyone or by the vast majority of people.

   The movie was universally praised by its audience.

   • 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 1:

     It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

   • 2021 April 25, John Malathronas, “Which languages are easiest – and most difficult – for native English speakers to learn?”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     Each written word when spoken is mutually incomprehensible between a Mandarin speaker in Beijing and a Cantonese speaker in Hong Kong. If you think that’s odd, consider our number system: the symbol “9” is universally recognized but it’s pronounced “nine” in English and “devet” in Slovenian.

• (universal manner): See also Thesaurus:generally

• “universally”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “universally”, in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

• universely, universaly, universelly, universalliche, unyversaliche, universaliche, unyversally, universalye

From universal +‎ -ly.

• IPA^(key): /iu̯niˈvɛrsaliː/, /iu̯nivɛrˈsaːliː/, /iu̯niˈvɛrsɛliː/, /iu̯niˈvɛrsaliːtʃ(ə)/

universally (Late Middle English)

1. en masse; impacting or influencing everything or everyone.
2. usually, commonly, frequently
3. universally, always.
4. (rare) entirely, fully.

• English: universally

• “ūniversā̆llī, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 31 April 2018.