collaboratively

C2+ Topic:Describing Qualities

US /kəˈlæbərətɪvli/ UK /kəˈlæbərətɪvli/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

adv
in a way that involves working jointly with others

The teams designed the bridge collaboratively across three offices.

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Synonyms

1 adv · in a way that involves... cooperativelyjointly together conjointly mutually collectively

Opposites

independently separately individually alone

Word family

Related forms collaborate collaboration collaborative

Etymology

From collaborative + -ly, from Latin collaborāre 'to work together', from com- 'together' + labōrāre 'to work', from labor 'toil'.

collaborāre Latin labor Latin

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Describing Qualities Word Formation & Derivatives

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# collaboratively

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** adv
**IPA (US):** /kəˈlæbərətɪvli/
**IPA (UK):** /kəˈlæbərətɪvli/

## Meanings
1. in a way that involves working jointly with others

## Examples
- The teams designed the bridge collaboratively across three offices.

## Synonyms
- cooperatively
- jointly
- together
- conjointly
- mutually
- collectively

## Antonyms
- independently
- separately
- individually
- alone

## Related Forms
- collaborate
- collaboration
- collaborative

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: collaborāre
- Root: labor

## Etymology
From collaborative + -ly, from Latin collaborāre 'to work together', from com- 'together' + labōrāre 'to work', from labor 'toil'.

## AI Etymology
Collaboratively comes from collaborative + -ly, from Latin collaborāre 'to work together', from com- 'together' + labōrāre 'to work', from labor 'toil'. The historical trail runs through collaborāre in Latin and labor in Latin. Morphologically, collaboratively is transparent: it draws on collaborative + -ly, from Latin collaborāre 'to work together', from com- 'together' + labōrāre 'to work', from labor 'toil'. Used as an adverb, collaboratively now means "in a way that involves working jointly with others", so the present definition can be read against the older forms and meanings. The same lexical family is also visible in related forms such as collaborate, collaboration, and collaborative. The result is a borrowed or transmitted form whose modern spelling carries a compact record of its route into English.

## Topics
- Describing Qualities
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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