strikingly

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English

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Etymology

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From striking +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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strikingly (comparative more strikingly, superlative most strikingly)

  1. (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.
  2. (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.
  3. (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.

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