Meanings
adverbone at a time (not comparable)
- not comparableDuring sequentially discrete instances.
He ate the peas on his plate one at a time.
1 more example
One at a time, please! I can't hear you if you all talk at once.
Synonyms: individually, separately
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbDuring sequentially discrete instances.
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antonym(s) of “individually”
Opposite
More synonyms by meaning
adverbin succession
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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Dutch een voor een, een tegelijk
- een voor eenindividually
- een tegelijkindividually
Esperanto unuope
- unuopeindividually
French un par un
- un par unindividually
German einer nach dem anderen, eine nach der anderen
- einer nach dem anderenindividually
- eine nach der anderenindividually
- eins nach dem anderenindividually
Hungarian egyenként, egyesével
- egyenkéntindividually
- egyesévelindividually
Japanese 一個ずつ
- 一個ずつ (ikko zutsu)individually
Māori kōtiri
- kōtiriindividually
Polish pojedynczo
- pojedynczoindividually
Portuguese um de cada vez, uma de cada vez
- um de cada vezindividually
- uma de cada vezindividually
Romanian unul câte unul
- unul câte unulindividually
Russian по одному́, поодино́чке
- по одному́ (po odnomú)individually
- поодино́чке (poodinóčke)individually
Spanish uno por vez, una por vez
- uno por vezindividually
- una por vezindividually
Swedish en åt gången, en i taget
- en åt gångenindividually
- en i tagetindividually
Welsh fesul un
- fesul unindividually
Cite this entry
APA
one at a time. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/one%20at%20a%20time
MLA
“one at a time.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/one%20at%20a%20time. Accessed November 5, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “one at a time,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/one%20at%20a%20time.
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