STARTLINGLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does startlingly mean? 

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

1. in a startling manner

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• STARTLINGLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a startling manner

Context example:

a startlingly modern voice

Pertainym:

startling (so remarkably different or sudden as to cause momentary shock or alarm)

 Context examples 

Two international teams of scientists led by Tim Miller from Dalhousie University in Canada and Yale University in the US and Iván Oteo from the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, have uncovered startlingly dense concentrations of galaxies that are poised to merge, forming the cores of what will eventually become colossal galaxy clusters.

(Ancient Galaxy Megamergers, ESO)

It was startlingly like the image conveyed to me in Dr. Seward's diary of the opening of Miss Westenra's tomb; I fancy that the same idea seemed to strike the others, for with one accord they shrank back.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I suppose I must have fallen asleep; I hope so, but I fear, for all that followed was startlingly real—so real that now sitting here in the broad, full sunlight of the morning, I cannot in the least believe that it was all sleep.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The telephone rang inside, startlingly, and as Daisy shook her head decisively at Tom the subject of the stables, in fact all subjects, vanished into air.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

The airedale—undoubtedly there was an airedale concerned in it somewhere though its feet were startlingly white—changed hands and settled down into Mrs. Wilson's lap, where she fondled the weather-proof coat with rapture.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)