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strikingly en · ADV

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Etymology

Etymology tree English striking Middle English -ly English -ly English strikingly From striking + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a striking way.
   • He entered strikingly, taking over the stage.
   • Fully air-conditioned and fluorescently lit, it is strikingly decorated and there is a magnificent outlook through the wide windows. 1960 December, “Modern lightweight coaches of the Swiss Federal Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 745, photo caption:
2. (qualifier:degree) To a remarkable degree or extent.
   • Each mate nursed his fellow, and some strikingly pathetic touches of devotion were shown here and there amongst them. 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 150:
   • Patterns of evolution in the two families, however, are strikingly different. 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:
   • He was strikingly deficient in good sense.
   • And the cello concerto was strikingly different on Sunday: at Weill, the ensemble included two violinists and one violist, cellist, bassist and lutenist, but on Sunday four more violinists, a second violist and a harpsichordist were added to give the ripieno sections of the fast movements a heftier punch than the smaller group delivered. 2009 January 20, Allan Kozinn, “Shafts of Sun in Winter From the Italian Baroque”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022:
   • Warwick's first glance had revealed the fact that the young woman was strikingly handsome, with a stately beauty seldom encountered. 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:
3. (qualifier:evaluative) Remarkably, surprisingly.
   • Strikingly, he had bowed deeply to the Emperor.
   • 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. 2020 December 21, Bryan Lufkin, “How 'linguistic mirroring' can make you more convincing”, in BBC, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2021:

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Translations (3)

pl uderzająco (in a striking manner) · cs nápadně (in a striking manner) · sh eklatantno (in a striking manner)