strikingly

adv

1. In a striking way.

   “He entered strikingly, taking over the stage.”

   “Fully air-conditioned and fluorescently lit, it is strikingly decorated and there is a magnificent outlook through the wide windows.”

2. To a remarkable degree or extent.

   “He was strikingly deficient in good sense.”

   “Each mate nursed his fellow, and some strikingly pathetic touches of devotion were shown here and there amongst them.”

   “Warwick's first glance had revealed the fact that the young woman was strikingly handsome, with a stately beauty seldom encountered.”

   “Patterns of evolution in the two families, however, are strikingly different.”

   “And the cello concerto was strikingly different on Sunday: at Weill, the ensemble included two violinists and one violist, cellist, bassist and lutenist, but on Sunday four more violinists, a second violist and a harpsichordist were added to give the ripieno sections of the fast movements a heftier punch than the smaller group delivered.”

3. Remarkably, surprisingly.

   “Strikingly, he had bowed deeply to the Emperor.”

   “Then, they looked up which lawyers in these various lawsuits won their cases, and those who didn’t. Most strikingly, the researchers found that if the legal teams more closely mirrored a judge’s preferred writing style in documents such as past legal opinions, their chances of winning could more than double.”