CHARACTERISTICALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does characteristically mean? 

• CHARACTERISTICALLY (adverb)
  The adverb CHARACTERISTICALLY has 1 sense:

1. in characteristic manner

  Familiarity information: CHARACTERISTICALLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHARACTERISTICALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In characteristic manner

Context example:

he arrived characteristically late

Antonym:

uncharacteristically (in uncharacteristic manner)

Pertainym:

characteristic (typical or distinctive)

 Context examples 

A genus of the family herpesviridae, subfamily betaherpesvirinae, infecting the salivary glands, liver, spleen, lungs, eyes, and other organs, in which they produce characteristically enlarged cells with intranuclear inclusions.

(Cytomegalovirus, NCI Thesaurus)

The N-helix often contains DNA-interacting basic residues; the C-helix typically contains characteristically spaced hydrophobic residues.

(Helix-Loop-Helix Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

Characteristically, there are typically deep trabeculations in the noncompacted area, with varying proportions of the LV myocardium compacted.

(Left Ventricular Non-Compaction Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

My lieutenant, for instance, is a man of wonderful courage and enterprise; he is madly desirous of glory, or rather, to word my phrase more characteristically, of advancement in his profession.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

"Good! Bless you! Now, as there's nothing like 'taking time by the fetlock', as Winkle characteristically observes, allow me to present the new member."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I was surprised, and joyfully, that she was so much the woman, and the display of each trait and mannerism that was characteristically feminine gave me keener joy.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Death receptor ligands characteristically initiate signaling via receptor oligomerization, recruitment of specialized adaptor proteins and activation of caspase cascades.

(DR3 and DR4/5 Mediated Apoptosis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

A form of herpetic keratitis characterized by the formation of small vesicles which break down and coalesce to form recurring dendritic ulcers, characteristically irregular, linear, branching, and ending in knoblike extremities.

(Dendritic Keratitis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Characteristically, they are located in the adrenal medulla and paraganglia of the sympathetic nervous system.

(Chromaffin cell, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

An acute myeloid leukemia with monocytic and granulocytic differentiation and the presence of a characteristically abnormal eosinophil component in the bone marrow.

(Acute Myeloid Leukemia with inv(16)(p13.1q22) or t(16;16)(p13.1;q22); CBFB-MYH11, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)