Definition of Startlingly

1. Adverb. In a startling manner. "A startlingly modern voice"

Partainyms: Startling

Definition of Startlingly

1. adv. In a startling manner.

Definition of Startlingly

1. Adverb. In a startling manner; in a manner that startles; surprisingly; shockingly. ¹

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Definition of Startlingly

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Startlingly

starting up
startingly
startings
startish
startle
startle reaction
startle reflex
startle response
startled
startlement
startlements
startler
startlers
startles
startling
startlingly (current term)
startlish
startly
starts
starts up
startsy
startup
startupper
startups
starvation
starvation acidosis
starvations
starve
starved
starved aster

Literary usage of Startlingly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"These two natures were startlingly different. One was to me hateful— Pera, with Galata touching it. The of discolored houses not unlike the houses of Naples ..."

2. History of the Origin of Representative Government in Europe by Guizot (François) (1861)
"... never appears so startlingly distinct as upon the occurrence of those extraordinary crises, which, so to speak, entirely delocalize man, and transport ..."

3. The Twenty-fourth Regiment, Massachusuetts Volunteers, 1861-1866, "New by Alfred Seelye Roe (1907)
"the bellowing of the great guns and the explosion of shells instantaneously and startlingly contrasted with the sleepy quiet of our long hours of watching. ..."

4. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52: Being a Series of by Thomas C. Russell (1922)
"... manner of eating - Sabine-like invasion leaves to tribe but a few old squaws - "startlingly unsophisticated state of almost entire nudity"-Their filthy ..."

5. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1878)
"The effect must have been not only " pretty," but even childish, " startlingly (un-)artistic."—Judging from all that we have read about the performance, ..."

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