Word Finder - strikingly

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(manner) In a striking way.

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He entered strikingly, taking over the stage.

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(degree) To a remarkable degree or extent.

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He was strikingly deficient in good sense.

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(evaluative) Remarkably, surprisingly.

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Strikingly, he had bowed deeply to the Emperor.

The length of her body was strikingly out of proportion to her short legs.

The city is built on a rocky hill rising from the Guayangareo valley, which gives to it a strikingly picturesque appearance.

The position of Iannina is strikingly picturesque.

For a strikingly colorful, yet simple dish, try orange and beet salad.

Prince Alexander possessed much charm and amiability of manner; he was tall, dignified and strikingly handsome.

Colors range from strikingly beautiful shades of rust brown, copper and bronze with undertones that are strong and iridescent.

Its wide collar and lapel has a vague 1970s look while the rest of the coat is strikingly modern.

In many forms its hyphae are particularly thick-walled, and may strikingly resemble the epidermis of a vascular plant.

Most interesting of all, perhaps, are the annals of Sennacherib, the destruction of whose hosts by the angel of God is so strikingly depicted in the Book of Kings.

Social flowers, whose nectar is concealed as in (3), but the flowers are grouped in heads which render them strikingly conspicuous, and several flowers can be simultaneously pollinated.

The bra is available in sizes 36C to 44DDD in colors that are strikingly beautiful.

If you are a fan of the Harry Potter series, Magic Academy will seem familiar with the strikingly similar characters you encounter throughout the game.

Since each mineral performs strikingly different functions, tests to confirm deficiency are markedly different from each other.

People with Alzheimer's have strikingly faulty memories.

When highlights are expertly done, your hair can actually grow out easily to about an inch and a half without the presence of strikingly dark roots.

Moreover, if your hair is naturally frizzy or curly, a good blowout and a flat iron can give you a new strikingly modelesque look for prom.

The frog looks strikingly similar to the one in the film.

There are a number of strikingly different ways to drape a sari, though, that don't resemble the Nivi method at all.

Another point to keep in mind is color; products that appear a certain shade on your computer screen may occasionally look strikingly different in person.

It's a look that can evoke dresses of the 1940s and 1950s or can be strikingly modern.

Some of the ads on this site are strikingly heartfelt essays about the person's hopes and dreams.

While it is strikingly similar to diamonds, it does have differences that may make it an even more luxurious choice for an engagement ring.

Unusual rings can be strikingly beautiful and elegant while at the same time being just as meaningful as any traditional diamond solitaire engagement ring or bridal set.

Colorless diamonds may be the most popular diamond but the chocolate diamond is strikingly beautiful.

Northern California is strikingly different than the Southern part of the state.

The symptoms of mercury poisoning and autism are strikingly similar, as illustrated by a comparison chart found at the bottom of the National Autism Society's page on thimerosal.

However the cost differences and convenience can often be strikingly different.

All these are strikingly alike in appearance and general characters, differing essentially only in chemical composition, and it would seem better to reserve the name cerargyrite for the whole group, using the names chlorargyrite (AgC1), embolite (Ag(Cl, Bl)), bromargyrite (AgBr) and iodembolite (Ag(C1, Br, I)) for the different isomorphous members of the group. They are cubic in crystallization, with the cube and the octahedron as prominent forms, but crystals are small and usually indistinct; there is no cleavage.

His imperfect acquaintance with French feeling was strikingly proved in the despatch which he sent home on learning of Napoleon's escape from Elba.

In this respect the fate of Pappus strikingly resembles that of Diophantus.

Perhaps the best is that of the Sudanese Locustid (Myrmecophana fallax), which is strikingly ant-like.

In the Lower Carboniferous rocks of Scotland intercalated volcanic rocks are strikingly abundant, and now form an important feature in the geology of the southern portion of that country.

Sumerian has a system of vowel harmony strikingly like that seen in all modern agglutinative languages, and it has also vocalic dissimilation similar to that found in modern Finnish and Esthonian.

This profoundly national character disengaged itself gradually, and has been more strikingly evident since 1870.

Buffaloes of an uncouth appearance and of a dark slaty color, strikingly contrasting with the neat cattle, abound in Egypt.

The feeling entertained by large numbers even of the educated class of Egyptians was strikingly illustrated by the terms of an anonymous letter received by Lord Cromer in May 1906.

The obsequies of Achilles, as described in the Odyssey, were also celebrated with details which are strikingly similar to those observed in tumuli both of the Bronze and Iron Ages.

In the same year she played Roxane in Racine's Bajazet, winning a complete triumph, but it was in Racine's Phedre, which she first played on the 21st of January 1843, that her peculiar gifts were most strikingly manifested.

From what has been already said it is evident that among algae also strikingly similar forms exist in widely different groups.

But the hydroxide of thallium, in most of its properties, comes very close to the alkali metals; it is strongly basic, forms an insoluble chloroplatinate, and an alum strikingly similar to the corresponding potassium compounds.

Most of the valleys, lakes and sea lochs run in a south-westerly and northeasterly direction, a feature strikingly exhibited in west Argyllshire.

The most impressive form of solitary cone is that wherein after vast denudation a thick overlying formation has been reduced to a single outlier, such as Morven in Caithness, the two Bens Griam in Sutherland, and still more strikingly, the pyramids of red sandstone on the western margin of the shires of Sutherland and Ross and Cromarty.

This reference to His own personal mission is strikingly expanded in words which He uttered on the return of the disciples.

But the way in which the two writers have used the same materials is strikingly different.

It is true, moreover, that, unless tested by a few unchanging principles, his acts were often strikingly inconsistent; and even when so tested, not infrequently remain so in appearance.

Although during the Gondwana period the flora of India differed greatly from that of Europe, it was strikingly similar to the contemporaneous floras of South America, South Africa and Australia.

Eight of the species were new and strikingly peculiar.

For it strikingly illustrates the fact that the temple of En-lil, like that of the Sun-god at Sippar and the other great temples in Babylonia, possessed a body of mythological and religious texts, which formed subjects for study and comment among the priestly scribes.

The coasts of Nicaragua are strikingly different in configuration.

This matter can be strikingly illustrated with an ordinary gyroscope, e.g.