The Collaborative International Dictionary
Distinctively \Dis*tinc"tive*ly\, adv. With distinction; plainly.
Wiktionary
adv. In a distinctive manner; in a way that is notable for its difference.
WordNet
adv. in an identifiably distinctive manner; "the distinctively conservative district of the county"
Usage examples of "distinctively".
I have never belonged distinctively to any of the different Distributist groups.
She suddenly had an image of an antique jardiniere with flowers and cupids painted in reserves on its sides and embellished with gold against a distinctively pink background.
The towns, from what he could see of them, lost their distinctively Quebecois look and began to resemble those of nearby New England.
Hunt's Drolls from the West of England has nothing distinctively Celtic, and it is only by a chance Lhuyd chose a folk-tale as his specimen of Cornish in his Archaeologia Britannica, 1709 (see Tale of Ivan).
We have no right, therefore, to invoke its prestige as distinctively in favor of any special belief, such as that in absolute idealism, or in the absolute monistic identity, or in the absolute goodness, of the world.
Thus (apart from certain relations) the occurrences which seem most distinctively mental, and furthest removed from physics, are, like physical objects, constructed or inferred, not part of the original stock of data in the perfected science.
But because the audit studies can’t measure the actual life outcomes of the fictitious DeShawn Williams versus Jake Williams, they can’t assess the broader impact of a distinctively black name.
But because the audit studies can't measure the actual life outcomes of the fictitious DeShawn Williams versus Jake Williams, they can't assess the broader impact of a distinctively black name.
A quick sniff verified that the distinctively acid smell of acetylene still hissed from the pilot hole, but he had to thumb the striking wheel five or six times before the waterlogged apparatus finally rewarded him with a spark.
She was surrounded by a circle of bulbous Trees, distinctively cream and shot through with reds and golds and browns, sprouting up from the spongy main body of the choo machine living below.
It was as distinctively his as the tweed coat and Terai hat that hung behind the door.
A distinctively twisted pine, growing on the very rim, had served her for decades as a secret landmark, but it was gone now, not even a stump remaining.
He soon saw that the construction did not emerge from ground, but from a slightly ribbed, lightly warped surface of similar but distinctively different material.