strikingly
Adverb
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Adverb
strikingly
- (manner) In a striking way.
- He entered strikingly, taking over the stage.
- (degree) To a remarkable degree or extent.
- He was strikingly deficient in good sense.
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 3:
- Patterns of evolution in the two families, however, are strikingly different.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- 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.
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