Adjacent Words

Respectively definitions

	Tweet

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RESPECT'IVELY, adv.
1. As relating to each; particularly; as each belongs to each. Let each man respectively perform his duty.
The impressions from the objects of the senses do mingle respectively every one with its kind.
2. Relatively; not absolutely.
3. Partially; with respect to private views. Obs.
4. With respect. Obs.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adv
1: in the order given; "the brothers were called Felix and Max, respectively" [syn: respectively, severally]

Merriam Webster's

adverb Date: 1602 1. in particular ; separately <could not recognize the solutions as salty or sour, respectively> 2. in the order given <Mary and Anne were respectively 12 and 16 years old>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adv. for each separately or in turn, and in the order mentioned (she and I gave £10 and £1 respectively).

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Respectively Re*spec"tive*ly, adv. 1. As relating to each; particularly; as each belongs to each; as each refers to each in order; as, let each man respectively perform his duty. The impressions from the objects or the senses do mingle respectively every one with its kind. --Bacon. 2. Relatively; not absolutely. [Obs.] --Sir W. Raleigh. 3. Partially; with respect to private views. [Obs.] 4. With respect; regardfully. [Obs.] --Shak.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Respectively means in the same order as the items that you have just mentioned. Their sons, Ben and Jonathan, were three and six respectively... ADV: ADV with cl/group

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

ad. Particularly.

Moby Thesaurus

apiece, commonly, communally, distributively, each, each to each, entre nous, even stephen, fifty-fifty, half-and-half, in equal shares, in proportion, individually, inter se, jointly, mutatis mutandis, mutually, one by one, per annum, per capita, pro rata, proportionately, separately, severally, singly