REMARKABLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does remarkably mean? 

• REMARKABLY (adverb)
  The adverb REMARKABLY has 2 senses:

1. to a remarkable degree or extent

2. in a signal manner

  Familiarity information: REMARKABLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REMARKABLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To a remarkable degree or extent

Synonyms:

notably; remarkably; unco; unusually

Context example:

Notably missing from the network's fall line-up are any half-hour scripted comedies

Antonym:

unremarkably (under normal conditions)

Pertainym:

remarkable (unusual or striking)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a signal manner

Synonyms:

remarkably; signally; unmistakably

Context example:

signally inappropriate methods

 Context examples 

The simulations resulting from a sophisticated model the researchers used show that solar tsunamis could be the connection that explains the Sun's remarkably rapid transition from one cycle to the next.

('Terminators' on the sun trigger plasma tsunamis, start of new solar cycles, National Science Foundation)

“Oh, remarkably superficial,” said Holmes, smiling.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mary Crawford was remarkably pretty; Henry, though not handsome, had air and countenance; the manners of both were lively and pleasant, and Mrs. Grant immediately gave them credit for everything else.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

They are all remarkably clever; and they have so many pretty ways.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Annie made her sing, and some one said she had a remarkably fine voice.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Those studies confirm that replacement bisphenols produce remarkably similar chromosomal abnormalities to those seen so many years earlier in studies of BPA.

(Reproductive Problems Reported In Lab Mice after BPA Replacements in Plastics, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Remarkably, each of the three families had its own unique missense mutation affecting the very same DNA letter in the RIPK1 gene.

(Researchers discover new autoinflammatory disease and uncover its biological cause, National Institutes of Health)

She has a remarkably thick nose, with eyes which are set close upon either side of it.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am no judge of music, but Mr. Rochester is; and I heard him say her execution was remarkably good.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Backward, from the apex, his head slanted down to his neck and forward it slanted uncompromisingly to meet a low and remarkably wide forehead.

(White Fang, by Jack London)