single-handedly

1. 1.

   without assistance

   “I built this house single-handedly”

   Synonymssingle-handed

Questions about single-handedly

What does single-handedly mean?

single-handedly means "without assistance".

How many syllables are in single-handedly?

single-handedly has 5 syllables: sin-gle--han-ded-ly. The stress falls on "han".

What is another word for single-handedly?

Close synonyms include single-handed. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is single-handedly a common word?

single-handedly is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.