STRIKINGLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does strikingly mean? 

• STRIKINGLY (adverb)
  The adverb STRIKINGLY has 1 sense:

1. in a striking manner

  Familiarity information: STRIKINGLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRIKINGLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a striking manner

Context example:

the evidence was strikingly absent

Pertainym:

striking (sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect)

 Context examples 

"You said Mr. Rochester was not strikingly peculiar, Mrs. Fairfax,"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Strikingly, they found no S. aureus in any of the samples where Bacillus were present.

(Study finds probiotic Bacillus eliminates Staphylococcus bacteria, National Institutes of Health)

The protein differs strikingly from other G-alpha subunits in amino acid sequence in a number of regions, and it appeared to be highly enriched in neural tissue.

(Guanine Nucleotide-Binding Protein G(z) Subunit Alpha, NCI Thesaurus)

And his behaviour, so strikingly altered—what could it mean?

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The difference between his present air and what it had been in the Octagon Room was strikingly great.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The resemblance between her and her mother was strikingly great.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I have always thought her pretty—not strikingly pretty—but 'pretty enough,' as people say; a sort of beauty that grows on one.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Although the features are strikingly similar, researchers were able to distinguish between them based on their detailed shapes.

(Dawn Explores Ceres' Interior Evolution, NASA)

There was a portrait within of a man strikingly handsome and intelligent-looking, but bearing unmistakable signs upon his features of his African descent.

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

He was a small man to begin with; and upon his meagre frame was deposited an even more strikingly meagre head.

(White Fang, by Jack London)