Antonyms for startlingly


Grammar : Adv
Spell : stahrt-ling, stahr-tl-ing
Phonetic Transcription : ˈstɑrt lɪŋ, ˈstɑr tl ɪŋ


Definition of startlingly

  • As in strangely : adv oddly
  • As in unexpectedly : adv surprisingly
Example sentences :
  • The soliloquy, too, is startlingly characteristic of Hamlet.
  • Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
  • Now the rattle of a key in the hall-door was startlingly audible.
  • Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance
  • He had watched a program just last month, and it had been startlingly lifelike.
  • Extract from : « Cost of Living » by Robert Sheckley
  • They are possibly not startlingly brilliant, and he is perfectly easy to deceive.
  • Extract from : « The Crooked House » by Brandon Fleming
  • The comparison, if not startlingly original, was fairly just.
  • Extract from : « The Twelfth Hour » by Ada Leverson
  • It is, of course, an old story, vividly and startlingly retold.
  • Extract from : « A Handful of Stars » by Frank W. Boreham
  • The child becomes a woman, startlingly beautiful and seductive.
  • Extract from : « Too Old for Dolls » by Anthony Mario Ludovici
  • Don Fabrizio thought the picture "startlingly" like the original.
  • Extract from : « A Word Only A Word, Complete » by Georg Ebers
  • Her eyes met Robert's, and he said startlingly: "Just like a woman!"
  • Extract from : « Rhoda Fleming, Complete » by George Meredith
  • There is another sort of success which does not startlingly or at once declare itself.
  • Extract from : « That Fortune » by Charles Dudley Warner

Synonyms for startlingly

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