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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
distinctly
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
remember clearly/vividly/distinctly (=well, with a lot of detail)
▪ I remember clearly how I used to feel as a child in church on Sundays.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
▪ To the human eye horses use five distinctly different facial expressions to suit different circumstances.
▪ You need a fresh strategy for a new day that is distinctly different from yesterday, and the time is growing short.
▪ Whereas non-infected individuals respond with largely type-specific responses, infected individuals respond with a profile distinctly different from the normal individual.
▪ The petiole and the blade of the leaves are usually distinctly different.
▪ This bird is distinctly different in character from those we had seen so far.
▪ However, we have also witnessed a distinctly different, life-affirming passion that responds to things of quality and goodness.
▪ Mammalian membranes have an enormously diverse composition and may contain over 100 distinctly different lipids.
▪ When we talk we produce sounds of three distinctly different types.
odd
▪ Amongst other things, it records a kinship system which struck Morgan as distinctly odd.
▪ Indeed, a skirt cut across straight at the lower edge would have a distinctly odd look, rather like a box.
▪ The community church started in a home and to wear them would have been distinctly odd.
▪ This makes Mr Exley's position distinctly odd.
uncomfortable
▪ Evans had been distinctly uncomfortable about Horowitz's presence in his office.
▪ She had a distinctly uncomfortable feeling that he was not referring to the fight which had followed that little incident.
▪ A single nun, working in an unorthodox manner in the slums, made some of the local clergy distinctly uncomfortable.
▪ I was 17, a private just a few weeks into my enlistment, and distinctly uncomfortable.
uneasy
▪ A multi-racial couple in the crowd look distinctly uneasy.
▪ For the past half-hour she had been feeling distinctly uneasy as the ever-present shadows had deepened into almost impenetrable blackness.
■ VERB
become
▪ But recently, the vibe has become distinctly mellower.
▪ By 1926, however, the secular beauty had become distinctly secondary.
▪ The arms are slightly noded becoming distinctly so distally.
▪ Against Western armies they were becoming distinctly anachronistic.
▪ The second method, budding is where vegetative propagation becomes distinctly more involved, difficult - and interesting.
▪ The environment for Windows add-on vendors is becoming distinctly unhealthy he says, as Microsoft adds functions into the base operating system.
feel
▪ So during the interval I felt distinctly apologetic.
▪ She felt distinctly that she had to leave Loreto and start her own work.
▪ By the time he reached the office Matthew was feeling distinctly indignant.
▪ The sun was also blazing on to this cliff, and I was feeling distinctly battered.
▪ Alvin was once more back at what felt distinctly like a starting point.
▪ By the time I reached the furthest peak I was feeling distinctly sick.
▪ I felt distinctly baffled, but Holmes was nodding thoughtfully.
hear
▪ He could distinctly hear voices which seemed to be coming from the parcels office next door.
▪ Inside the room he could distinctly hear his own breathing - the sharp intake of air, followed by the slower exhalation.
look
▪ But without Pearce there was never the pace in a Forest side, who looked distinctly foot-weary, to test Schmeichel.
▪ Pre-election nerves in the City last week left the performance of the remaining 10 Questor Selection shares looking distinctly patchy.
▪ He was back quite soon and looking distinctly puzzled.
▪ She peered at the Christmas cactus she had bought for Alan and decided it looked distinctly sorry for itself.
▪ With Diana in the snow, Charles looked distinctly unamused and drew the session to a close.
▪ Captain Dennis Wise was singing his little heart out whilst the rest stood there looking distinctly unwise as to the lyrics.
▪ Indeed, it is highly unlikely that White would capture on b7 in this line, 17 0-0 looking distinctly superior.
▪ George Birkitt was looking distinctly peeved, aware that Michael Banks had upstaged him in a way that was quite unanswerable.
remember
▪ I distinctly remember seeing a few of the eggs hitting the spokes of his front wheel as he slowed down.
▪ I distinctly remember the overwhelming feeling of abject helplessness which this incident brought about.
▪ I distinctly remember Bill and I making no comment.
▪ I distinctly remember assembling on a tray some orange-topped mushrooms, a rusty bed-spring, and some blackened pieces of toast.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I distinctly told you to be home before 11:00.
▪ New Orleans has a distinctly European feel to it.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although the intensity of the pain may fluctuate, headache-free periods are distinctly rare.
▪ As he turned on the attic lights and climbed the creaking steps, he smelled it more distinctly than before.
▪ By lunchtime she was distinctly unwell and the school nurse told her she had a temperature and sent her home.
▪ By the time he reached the office Matthew was feeling distinctly indignant.
▪ The old estate looked quite ready to swap tarmac for mud; this one has a distinctly more suburban air.
▪ The whole concept of wealth made her distinctly uneasy.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Distinctly

Distinctly \Dis*tinct"ly\, adv.

  1. With distinctness; not confusedly; without the blending of one part or thing another; clearly; plainly; as, to see distinctly.

  2. With meaning; significantly. [Obs.]

    Thou dost snore distinctly; There's meaning in thy snores.
    --Shak.

    Syn: Separately; clearly; plainly; obviously.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
distinctly

late 14c., from distinct + -ly (2).\n\n[D]istinctly, in the sense really quite, is the badge of the superior person indulgently recognizing unexpected merit in something that we are to understand is not quite worthy of his notice.

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Wiktionary
distinctly

adv. In a distinct manner.

WordNet
distinctly

  1. adv. clear to the mind; with distinct mental discernment; "it's distinctly possible"; "I could clearly see myself in his situation" [syn: clearly]

  2. in a distinct and distinguishable manner; "the subtleties of this distinctly British occasion"

  3. to a distinct degree; "urbanization in Spain is distinctly correlated with a fall in reproductive rate"

Usage examples of "distinctly".

Laura Lipping distinctly saw a snarl of baffled rage reveal itself behind his heavy moustache and upturned astrachan collar.

A raven also in the Athapascan myth saved their ancestors from the general flood, and in this instance it is distinctly identified with the mighty thunder bird, who at the beginning ordered the earth from the depths.

It came round the barns at night, and no one had ever seen it distinctly.

After some time, his choice was decided in favor of the Burman mission by such indications, that he considered his call to this service distinctly and plainly marked.

It can be observed much more distinctly in the upper cells of the pedicels than within the glands, as these are somewhat opaque.

I spent January reading and rereading it, partly out of envy, because there it was, in cold print between hard covers, the same place, the same people, some of the same doctors, including a thinly disguised Bolshakov, in a nonfictional memoir that was distinctly Chekhovian, and, despite being deliberately oversimplified or nonarch in style, was greatly readable.

It was distinctly possible that having an ex-hooker on a jury would be breaking new legal ground in Cochise County.

He most easily retains and repeats, among the infinitely manifold consonants that are produced by loud expiration, those which have been distinctly heard by him.

Your Honor has but to recall and apply the rigid rule announced by our courts prescribing distinctly how the corpus delicti in murder must be proven.

If, somehow, it had fallen into the hands of a drosophilist, he might have needed several days of study to notice there was something distinctly odd about that particular specimen.

I distinctly recall noting its ethnocentricity in naming the transporter for the human god Janus rather than the Vulcan goddess Yelanna.

Then Trian turned back to stare at Roymer, and there was a distinctly human expression of surprise in his eyelike things.

Here she was distinctly out of place, and besides, there were fewer fairgoers, and less of a chance for an audience.

The moral law of God has been heard as distinctly by them as by the upper, but they have not that discriminating judgment that enables them in every instance to distinguish between the morally wrong and the morally right, and yet there has been awakened in them a consciousness of certain things due to their fellowman and to their God that has kept them in a way that they could not be charged with wilful moral wrong, and their conservatism has placed them in a manner nearer to the morally right than to the morally wrong.

Sounding distinctly amused, she busied herself rearranging the folds of her skirt with small, slender hands.