strikingly
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]strikingly (comparative more strikingly, superlative most strikingly)
- (manner) In a striking way.
- He entered strikingly, taking over the stage.
- 1960 December, “Modern lightweight coaches of the Swiss Federal Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 745, photo caption:
- Fully air-conditioned and fluorescently lit, it is strikingly decorated and there is a magnificent outlook through the wide windows.
- (degree) To a remarkable degree or extent.
- He was strikingly deficient in good sense.
- 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 150:
- Each mate nursed his fellow, and some strikingly pathetic touches of devotion were shown here and there amongst them.
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 3:
- Patterns of evolution in the two families, however, are strikingly different.
- 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:
- Warwick's first glance had revealed the fact that the young woman was strikingly handsome, with a stately beauty seldom encountered.
- (evaluative) Remarkably, surprisingly.
- Strikingly, he had bowed deeply to the Emperor.
- 2020 December 21, Bryan Lufkin, “How 'linguistic mirroring' can make you more convincing”, in BBC[1]:
- Then, they looked up which lawyers in these various lawsuits won their cases, and those who didn’t. Most strikingly, the researchers found that if the legal teams more closely mirrored a judge’s preferred writing style in documents such as past legal opinions, their chances of winning could more than double.
Translations
[edit]in a striking manner
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to a remarkable degree