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markedly

Word definitions for markedly in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adv. in a clearly noticeable manner; "sales of luxury cars dropped markedly"

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1799, from marked + -ly (2). "A favorite 19th c. adverb" [OED].

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. In a marked manner; distinctly, noticeably, conspicuously.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Marked \Marked\ (m[aum]rkt), a. Designated or distinguished by, or as by, a mark; hence; noticeable; conspicuous; as, a marked card; a marked coin; a marked instance. -- Mark"ed*ly , adv. --J. S. Mill. A marked man , a man who is noted by a community, or ...

Usage examples of markedly.

Their raucous core of senior employees had been a barnstorming crew of 1960s Californians, many of them markedly less than happy with the new button-down multimillion dollar regime at Apple.

The only comment on the smear is that the platelets are markedly decreased and that no reticulocytes are seen.

Engineering Team has won the contract to design and build the hydro-electric dam at the foot of Lake Egendi, despite being markedly underbid by General Dynamics.

There must be one principle constituting this unit of many forms of life and enclosing the several members within the unity, while at the same time, precisely as in each thing of detail the parts too have each a definite function, so in the All each several member must have its own task--but more markedly so since in this case the parts are not merely members but themselves Alls, members of the loftier Kind.

It tends to affect the entire skeleton, and in a family where one child is markedly brachydactylous, that child is generally shorter than the others.

Later, alone with Old Horsemeat, he projected the great new thoughts, staring with solemn yellow eyes at the old god, but the latter grew markedly nervous and even showed signs of real fear, so Gummitch desisted.

Old Horsemeat, he projected the great new thoughts, staring with solemn yellow eyes at the old god, but the latter grew markedly nervous and even showed signs of real fear, so Gummitch desisted.

Hyperthyroid individuals showed a markedly high BMR and hypothyroid individuals a markedly low one.

Roman citizens spread across the whole thirty-five tribes would markedly decrease the Roman content of the elections, would see Italians contest the polls for consul, praetor, aedile, tribune of the plebs, and quaestor, would see Italians in huge numbers enter the Senate, all determined to wrest control of the Senate away from the Romans and into the hands of Italy.

No one at the store saw anything amiss when we drove up, and though Peavy was careful to roll each box and drum onto the scale, he made no comment when he found them markedly overweight.

For instance, among the Tanala, in Madagascar, there are two groups differing markedly in skin colour, although they seem to be much alike in their other physical characteristics and are nearly identical in culture and language.

Leaving aside the problems which this genealogy presents to historians, a point to note in the present context is not so much the appearance of late British names in a supposedly 'Teutonic' royal house, as their appearance in a markedly anglicized form that must be due to their being borrowed as names, and to their accommodation like ordinary loan-words to English speech-habits.

He had perhaps seen, on Fourths of July and on dear old domestic Commencements, more people assembled, but he had never seen so many in proportion to the space, or had at all events never known so great a promiscuity to show so markedly as picked.

The AGM-89 Longhorn missile was able to lock onto a target once in flight, but without guidance corrections from the bombardier, its hit percentage decreased markedly.

The body was now markedly different to the image contained in his passport flek the day he disembarked from the Yaku.