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STRIKINGLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a striking manner

Example:

the evidence was strikingly absent

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

striking (sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect)

Credits

 Context examples: 

And it is not merely the house—the grounds, I assure you, as far as I could observe, are strikingly like.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Their taste was strikingly alike.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I was suddenly, upon turning the corner of a steepish downy field, in the midst of a retired little village between gently rising hills; a small stream before me to be forded, a church standing on a sort of knoll to my right—which church was strikingly large and handsome for the place, and not a gentleman or half a gentleman's house to be seen excepting one—to be presumed the Parsonage—within a stone's throw of the said knoll and church.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)