trebly

comparative treblier · comparative more trebly · superlative trebliest · superlative most trebly

1. Having treble, or high-pitched, qualities.

   With the room so bare, Ivret’s voice sounded different, trebly echoes ringing off her sibilants.

   2024, Scott Alexander Howard, The Other Valley, Atlantic Books (2025), page 162

1. archaicnot comparableThree times, thrice

   Synonyms: thricely

2. not comparableTo three times the extent or degree; triply.

   For my part, I must do my best to save this fellow's trebly worthless life; Jim, you get me a basin.

   1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, Cignet Classic, published 1998, page 13

   1 more example

   The task was made trebly difficult, however, by the badly run-down condition in which the railways of Britain had been unavoidably left at the end of the war in 1945, […].

   1958 January 28, 'Borderer', “Ten Years of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 12