Definition for Only:

• Save or except ( that); an adversative used elliptically with or without that, and properly introducing a single fact or consideration.

Synonyms for Only:

• adj.

  •alone (adjective)
  • more unassisted,
  • on one own,
  • by itselfoneself,
  • un escorted,
  • unaided,
  • most widowed,
  • most unaided,
  • staggest,
  • more unescorted,
  • un accompanied,
  • by itself-oneself,
  • me my shadow,
  • most hermit,
  • unmarried,
  • more onliest,
  • un-attended,
  • most unescorted,
  • solo,
  • un aided,
  • shaggest,
  • un-accompanied,
  • more hermit,
  • more unaided,
  • de-solate,
  • un assisted,
  • un-attached,
  • me myself i,
  • un attended,
  • un attached,
  • most onliest,
  • un-married,
  • un-assisted,
  • more widowed,
  • un-aided,
  • on ones own,
  • un-escorted,
  • most unassisted,
  • by itself oneself,
  • de solate,
  • un married.
  •exclusive (adjective)
  • in-dependent,
  • more cliquish,
  • in dependent,
  • dis-criminative,
  • most exclusory,
  • most exclusionary,
  • more circumscribed,
  • upper crust,
  • dis criminative,
  • most cliquish,
  • most circumscribed,
  • more exclusionary,
  • restrictive,
  • un divided,
  • un-divided,
  • more exclusory.
  •exclusively (adjective)
  • all.
  •individual (adjective)
  • ex press,
  • un-usual,
  • in dividual,
  • personalized,
  • more diacritic,
  • dis crete,
  • un commoner,
  • most diacritic,
  • re-served,
  • in divisible,
  • re served,
  • un-common,
  • un-commoner,
  • in-divisible,
  • un usual,
  • ex-press,
  • un commonest,
  • most personalized,
  • de-finite,
  • more unitary,
  • in-dividual,
  • dis-crete,
  • de finite,
  • more personalized,
  • most unitary,
  • un common.
  •main (adjective)
  • most undisguised,
  • un-disguised,
  • un disguised,
  • more undisguised.
  •matchless (adjective)
  • Unapproached.
  •peerless (adjective)
  • Unparagoned,
  • solid-gold,
  • second to none,
  • Gilt-edge,
  • beyond compare,
  • world class,
  • out-standing.
  •separate (adjective)
  • more apart,
  • most apart.
  •single (adjective)
  • unalloyed,
  • singled-out,
  • singled out,
  • unmixed,
  • not general,
  • not public,
  • without equal,
  • unshared,
  • unblended,
  • uncompounded,
  • odd,
  • unique,
  • singular.
  •singular (adjective)
  • one shot,
  • onliest,
  • once in a lifetime,
  • isolated,
  • unaccompanied.
  •sole (adjective)
  • re maining.
  •solitary (adjective)
  • more uncompanionable,
  • re-mote,
  • more hermitical,
  • with-drawn,
  • un-frequented,
  • mis-anthropic,
  • most sequestered,
  • most hermitical,
  • most uncompanionable,
  • un-social,
  • most eremetic,
  • more unsocial,
  • with drawn,
  • most unsocial,
  • un social,
  • more sequestered,
  • un-approachable,
  • anti social,
  • more eremetic,
  • un companionable,
  • un frequented,
  • re tired,
  • mis anthropic,
  • un-companionable,
  • un approachable.
  •unequaled (adjective)
  • para mount,
  • more surpassing,
  • sur-passing,
  • most surpassing,
  • para-mount,
  • un-equaled,
  • un equaled.
  •unique (adjective)
  • more primo,
  • extra-ordinary,
  • un imaginable,
  • farout,
  • most primo,
  • un-real,
  • un-imaginable.
  •unparalleled (adjective)
  • Champer,
  • solid gold,
  • world-class.

• adv

  •entirely (adverb)
  • Undividedly,
  • without reservation,
  • in every respect,
  • reservedly,
  • without exception.
  •hardly (adverb)
  • almost not,
  • not likely,
  • Scantly,
  • by a hair,
  • pretty near,
  • no more than,
  • only just,
  • not at all,
  • not measurably,
  • not noticeably,
  • not notably,
  • detectably,
  • once in a blue moon,
  • by no means,
  • perceptibly,
  • no way,
  • faintly,
  • not a bit,
  • not markedly,
  • once in blue moon,
  • not much,
  • not by much,
  • not often.
  •purely (adverb)
  • all in all,
  • In Toto.

• adv.

  •all (adverb)
  • only.
  •barely; exclusively (adverb)
  • particularly,
  • wholly,
  • totally,
  • purely,
  • uniquely,
  • utterly,
  • solely,
  • simply,
  • entirely,
  • plainly,
  • at most,
  • just,
  • but.
  •exclusively (adverb)
  • one and only,
  • singularly.
  •hardly (adverb)
  • sparsely,
  • with trouble,
  • not quite,
  • infrequently.
  •separately (adverb)
  • individually,
  • severally.
  •solitarily (adverb)
  • singlehandedly,
  • all by ones lonesome,
  • all by one lonesome,
  • single handedly,
  • all by lonesome.
  •wholly (adverb)
  • in dividually,
  • in-dividually.

• n.

  •
  • even so,
  • not to mention,
  • by the way,
  • furthermore,
  • namely,
  • incidentally,
  • anyway,
  • the fact that,
  • in any case,
  • anyhow.
  •
  • last,
  • Until,
  • include,
  • sometime,
  • This,
  • when,
  • here,
  • Whenever,
  • then,
  • before.
  •
  • same,
  • otherwise than,
  • exclusive of something,
  • beyond,
  • with the exception of.
  •
  • slight.
  •
  • low.
  •lone (noun)
  • lone.
  •merely (noun)
  • barely.
  •only (noun)
  • lonesome,
  • only when,
  • only if.
  •sole (noun)
  • unclassified,
  • Companionless.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • minimum,
  • scant,
  • minimal,
  • mere,
  • Excepting,
  • Excepted,
  • miserly,
  • exiguous,
  • few,
  • unmatched,
  • thinly,
  • sparingly,
  • else,
  • Excluding,
  • faintest,
  • sparse.
  •
  • limited,
  • slender,
  • least,
  • little,
  • scanty,
  • nonpareil,
  • incomparable,
  • unexampled,
  • matchless,
  • any.
  •
  • lightly,
  • unrivaled,
  • pitiful,
  • bare,
  • outside.
  •
  • minority,
  • passing.
  •
  • apart.
  •
  • bar,
  • thin.
  •
  • light.
  •alone
  • singly.

Paraphrases for Only:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    solely.
  • Adverb
    solely.
  • Verb, past tense
    solely.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    purely, mere, strictly, unattached, one-stop, one-off, one-size-fits-all, lonesome, little, vain, once-in-a-lifetime, Len, merely, very, common.
  • Proper noun, singular
    applicants, Does, sides.
  • Noun, plural
    purposes, individuals, techniques, reasons, documents, Records, Respondents, concerns, practices, Soils, registers, Goals, releases, units.
  • Adverb
    barely, purely, entirely, scarcely, hardly, so, however, completely, absolutely, totally, singly, necessarily, strictly, single-handedly, independently, individually, still, precisely, yet, nevertheless, once, rather, recently, perfectly, marginally, certainly, currently, longer, also, little, quite, rarely, apart, approximately, newly, unsuccessfully, fully, soon, slightly, then, neither, merely, very, firstly.
  • Verb, past tense
    Relied, Was, Remained, tried, Meant, fell.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Applying, affecting, appearing, saying, going, getting.
  • Verb, past participle
    confined, practised, Regarded, Meant.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    applies, contains, accounts, wants, falls, takes, Does.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    exclusively.
  • Proper noun, singular
    exclusively.
  • Adverb
    exclusively.

Antonyms for Only:

• adj.

  • Other antonyms:
    garden, common, worse, motley, ubiquitous, miscellaneous, inferior, ill, bush-league, poor, lower, household, recurrent, lesser, lousy, low-grade, terrible, normal, execrable, pathetic, low, inclusive, perennial, second-rate, assorted, usual, wretched, vile, unsatisfactory, unacceptable, awful, everyday, patchwork, depressed, commonplace, varied, prevalent, deficient, popular, heterogenous, bush, lame, rotten, bad, mediocre, atrocious, promiscuous, multiple, wanting, repeated, mixed, paltry, routine, worst, off, prevailing, substandard, dissatisfactory, ordinary, rampant, punk, frequent.

• adv.

  • barely; exclusively
    incompletely, indefinitely.

Only Sentence Examples:

• It not only can be, but is!

• No darling, not my father, only my husband.