markedly

adv

markedly

adv

UK /ˈmɑː.kɪd.li/ · US /ˈmɑɹ.kɪd.li/

Etymology From marked + -ly.

1

In a marked manner; distinctly, noticeably, conspicuously.

  • Being markedly different as a teenager can get you taunted; as an adult it can make you famous.
  • Nearer the coast, the land becomes markedly more marshy, with long, winding channels striking inland from the sea, making access to some of the waterside villages rather difficult.1950 December 23, R. C. J. Day and R. K. Kirkland, “The Kelvedon & Tollesbury Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 838:
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  • Developments were markedly different in the Soviet zone, but ultimately ended in perhaps an even grimmer dead end: that of SED leader Walter Ulbricht’s thoroughly Stalinized German Democratic Republic (GDR).2017 May 23, Loren Balhorn, “The Lost History of Antifa”, in Jacobin Magazine:

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