strikingly

Adverb

strikingly (comparative more strikingly, superlative most strikingly)

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.1960 December, “Modern lightweight coaches of the Swiss Federal Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 745, photo caption
2. (degree) 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.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 150
3. (evaluative) 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...2020 December 21, Bryan Lufkin, “How 'linguistic mirroring' can make you more convincing”, in BBC, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2021