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Definition: Strikingly |
StrikinglyAdverb1. In a striking manner; "this was strikingly demonstrated"; "the evidence was strikingly absent". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "strikingly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1780. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Greatness | Particularly, remarkably, singularly, curiously, uncommonly, unusually, peculiarly, notably, signally, strikingly, pointedly, mainly, chiefly; famously, egregiously, prominently, glaringly, emphatically, gr/kat exochin/, strangely, wonderfully, amazingly, surprisingly, astonishingly, incredibly, marvelously, awfully, stupendously. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Strikingly |
| English words defined with "strikingly": bizarreness ♦ Connarus guianensis, contrasting, contrastive ♦ exotic, eyeful ♦ far-out ♦ kinky ♦ offbeat, outlandishness ♦ picturesque ♦ quirky ♦ stunning ♦ way-out, weird, weirdness. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | In addition, the age at which MEN1 can begin to cause endocrine gland overfunction can differ strikingly from one family member to another. (references) | |
However, evaluation of soluble receptors for TNF and IL-2 demonstrated that they were strikingly elevated in HPS patients, as compared with controls. (references) | ||
It is characterized by seizures, psychomotor deterioration, failure to thrive, temperature instability (hypothermia), and strikingly peculiar hair. Copper is deficient in most tissues of Menkes disease patients, causing structural changes in the hair, brain, bones, liver, and arteries. (references) | ||
Minorities | Burundi | State discrimination against Hutus, who constitute an estimated 85 percent of the population, affects every facet of society, but most strikingly higher education and certain branches of the Government such as the armed services and the judicial system. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | The effects of an extension of bank credits and over-issues of bank paper have been strikingly illustrated in the sales of the public lands. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Strikingly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Strikingly" is used about 337 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 337 | 15,616 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "strikingly": strikingly-coloured. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
strikingly | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "strikingly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | поразително (amazingly, overwhelmingly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | '目. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | auffallend (colorful, colourful, conspicuous, conspicuously, flamboyantly, flaring, garishly, near, notable, notably, noticeable, outstanding, prominent, pronounced, remarkable, showy, stagily, stagy, striking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καταπληκτικώσ (astonishingly, startlingly), κτυπητά. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | feltűnően (conspicuously, garishly, markedly, ostentatiously). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 著しく (considerably, remarkably). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | いちじるしく (considerably, remarkably). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 현 하게 (Observably, remarkably). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ikinglystray поразительно (astoundingly). (various references) znatno (considerably, notably, notedly, noticeably), upadljivo (markedly, remarkably). (various references) notablemente (markedly, notably, notedly, noticeably, remarkably, signally). (various references) slående (arresting, beater, beating, catchy, eye-catching, percussive, striking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Strikingly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: shriekingly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "strikingly" (pronounced strī"kinglē) |
| 5 | -k i ng l ē | breathtakingly, jokingly, painstakingly, shockingly, unthinkingly. |
| 4 | -i ng l ē | accordingly, accusingly, admiringly, agonizingly, alarmingly, amazingly, amusingly, appallingly, appealingly, approvingly, astonishingly, astoundingly, charmingly, chillingly, compellingly, confusingly, convincingly, correspondingly, demandingly, depressingly, devastatingly, disappointingly, disarmingly, disparagingly, distressingly, disturbingly, embarrassingly, exceedingly, excruciatingly, fittingly, fleetingly, frighteningly, frowningly, frustratingly, glowingly, grudgingly, haltingly, hauntingly, increasingly, interestingly, intriguingly, kiddingly, knowingly, laughingly, longingly, lovingly, maddeningly, menacingly, misleadingly, movingly, numbingly, obligingly, overwhelmingly, pleasingly, reassuringly, refreshingly, resoundingly, screamingly, seemingly, smilingly, soothingly, sparingly, sportingly, startlingly, stunningly, surprisingly, tantalizingly, tellingly, threateningly, unfailingly, unhesitatingly, unknowingly, unsurprisingly, unwillingly, unwittingly, warningly, willingly, wittingly. |
| 3 | -ng l ē | gangly, kingly, Langley, strongly, wrongly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-i-k-l-n-r-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: kiltings, kitlings, skirling, skirting, stingily, striking. | |
-3 letters: griskin, gristly, kilting, kitling, likings, listing, nitrils, riskily, risking, silking, silting, skiting, strigil, stringy, styling, tilings, tirling. | |
-4 letters: glints, grisly, instil, irking, isling, kingly, kiting, liking, lyings, lyrist, lysing, nitril, riling, rising, ryking, singly, siring, siting, skiing, skying, skylit, slinky, stingy, stinky, string, stying, tiling, tingly. | |
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