Definitions for onliest

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onliest on·li·est

Spelling: [ohn-lee-ist]

IPA: /ˈoʊn li ɪst/

Onliest is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 278 anagrams from letters in onliest (eilnost).

Definitions for onliest

Idioms

1. only too, as a matter of fact; extremely: unfortunately; very:

adverb

1. without others or anything further; alone; solely; exclusively:
2. no more than; merely; just:
3. as recently as:
4. in the final outcome or decision:

adjective

1. only: used as an intensive.
2. being the single one or the relatively few of the kind:
3. having no sibling or no sibling of the same sex:
4. single in superiority or distinction; unique; the best:

conjunction

1. but (introducing a single restriction, restraining circumstance, or the like):
2. Older Use. except; but:

Origin of onliest

First recorded in 1575-85; only + -est¹

Examples for onliest

You're awful good to me, Bob; I guess you're the best and onliest friend I've got.

They colle'ted they pay, an' the onliest thing the owner took was enough to support they fam'lies.

That is the onliest brother I'm got living now out of ten—that one that was settin' in her lap when the soldiers come through.

Why, Ellen girl, don't you know that ever since the first day I saw you you've been the onliest girl for me!

Imogene, my onliest, sweet bird of paradise, it is your mate who calls.

I come back to see my darter, the onliest chile I got in the worl'.

Burying in dirt is the onliest thing that'll take off the smell.

All the rest of them is dead and he is the onliest one that is living.

A hoss is one of the onliest things in natur' that is helpet by it.

The coast is just gettin' like glass, and you're the onliest one to steer the bob.