simultaneously
Occurring at the same time.
Adverb
- Occurring at the same time.
- The cradle-rocking and the song would cease simultaneously for a moment, and an exclamation at highest vocal pitch would take the place of the melody. - 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London:...
- Numa was about to charge—there was little time in which to compare various methods or weigh the probable results of any. And then a number of things happened, almost simultaneously—the lion sprang from his ambush toward...
- The hens woke up squawking with terror because they had all dreamed simultaneously of hearing a gun go off in the distance. - 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell...
Origin
Etymology tree English simultaneous Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English simultaneously From simultaneous + -ly.
Synonyms
at a time at one time at the same time concomitantly concurrently contemporaneously cotemporally during in parallel simultaneously together then therewhile while
Antonyms
individually one at a time piecemeal separately severally singly