triply

[trip-lee]

adverb

1. to a triple number, measure, or degree.

2. in a triple manner; threefold.

Word History and Origins

Origin of triply¹

First recorded in 1650–60; triple + -ly

Example Sentences

“It’s a community that is triply marginalized for being foreign, Black and speaking Haitian Creole,” Sangaramoorthy said.

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"But reaching this pinnacle is doubly, triply sad for us all," he says.

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Using a new technique with the Hubble Space Telescope, the team employed a filter set that looks at the light of triply ionized carbon.

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It's always wiser to look at what a politician does more than what he says, but with Trump, it's triply important.

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We made a plan for Easter Sunday — a rare Easter that coincided with Passover and Ramadan, so triply holy — and when I woke the sky had pitched its blue tent high in celebration.

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