1 in a smooth, regular or equal way:
Make sure the paint covers the surface evenly. * She was fast asleep, breathing evenly. * evenly spaced at four cm apart * evenly cooked meat * Arrange the tomato slices evenly on the top.
2 with equal amounts for each person or in each place:
evenly distributed / divided * Incidence of the disease is fairly evenly spread across Europe. * The two teams are very evenly matched (= are equally likely to win).
3 calmly; without showing any emotion:
'I warned you not to phone me,' he said evenly.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for evenly is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is evenly a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, evenly is tagged as adverb.
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