Antonyms for outstandingly


Grammar : Adv
Spell : out-stan-ding
Phonetic Transcription : ˌaʊtˈstæn dɪŋ


Definition of outstandingly

Origin :
  • 1610s, "projecting, prominent, detached," present participle adjective from outstand (v.) "endure successfully, hold out against," from out (adv.) + stand (v.). Figurative sense of "conspicuous, striking" is first recorded 1830. Meaning "unpaid, unsettled" is from 1797. Related: Outstandingly.
  • As in markedly : adv distinctly
  • As in notably : adv especially
  • As in particularly : adv specifically
  • As in eminently : adv exceptionally; well
  • As in especially : adv exceptionally, particularly
Example sentences :
  • He was outstandingly brave at a time when the world was full of brave men.
  • Extract from : « The Kingdom Round the Corner » by Coningsby Dawson
  • One thing became at once outstandingly certain to the unsophisticated reader.
  • Extract from : « The Roof Tree » by Charles Neville Buck
  • Of course this is, in a measure, true in every field of investigation, but it is outstandingly true in psychical research.
  • Extract from : « Modern Religious Cults and Movements » by Gaius Glenn Atkins
  • What are the outstandingly significant sex differences which application of the above criterion leaves?
  • Extract from : « Taboo and Genetics » by Melvin Moses Knight, Iva Lowther Peters, and Phyllis Mary Blanchard
  • If upon further testing these third group plants proved to be outstandingly productive or hardy they were given a higher rating.
  • Extract from : « Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting » by Northern Nut Growers Association
  • One Harry Occleve, of Laetitia's circle, so obviously "the good match," was outstandingly such a case.
  • Extract from : « This Freedom » by A. S. M. Hutchinson

Synonyms for outstandingly

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