Definition of characteristically in English:
characteristically
adverb ˌkarəktəˈrɪstɪk(ə)liˌkɛrəktəˈrɪstɪkli
In a way that is typical of a particular person, place, or thing.
he characteristically helped an old man
his response was characteristically blunt
Example sentencesExamples
- Some members of characteristically large groups may be more needy than productive.
- In his characteristically satirical manner, he questions the moral degeneration of our cities, where vice is the order of the day.
- He was characteristically insensitive to Western public opinion.
- His work characteristically involves him interacting, often fruitlessly, with a charcoal drawing he has made on a wall.
- "Cultural cringe" denotes a characteristically colonial deference towards the cultural achievements of others.
- Characteristically his sculpture is made of junk material or rough, unworked wood.
- Viewed collectively, the works certainly bristle with his characteristically intense emotion.
- Euripides characteristically opens his plays with a markedly non-naturalistic prologue.
- She follows the three-year evolution of a class at the ballet school, focusing on three characteristically hard-working, gifted students.
- On one side of the bridge, the setting looks characteristically like a Chinese landscape painting.
Definition of characteristically in US English:
characteristically
adverbˌkerəktəˈristiklēˌkɛrəktəˈrɪstɪkli
In a way that is typical of a particular person, place, or thing.
he characteristically helped an old man
his response was characteristically blunt
Example sentencesExamples
- Euripides characteristically opens his plays with a markedly non-naturalistic prologue.
- He was characteristically insensitive to Western public opinion.
- His work characteristically involves him interacting, often fruitlessly, with a charcoal drawing he has made on a wall.
- Characteristically his sculpture is made of junk material or rough, unworked wood.
- "Cultural cringe" denotes a characteristically colonial deference towards the cultural achievements of others.
- She follows the three-year evolution of a class at the ballet school, focusing on three characteristically hard-working, gifted students.
- In his characteristically satirical manner, he questions the moral degeneration of our cities, where vice is the order of the day.
- On one side of the bridge, the setting looks characteristically like a Chinese landscape painting.
- Viewed collectively, the works certainly bristle with his characteristically intense emotion.
- Some members of characteristically large groups may be more needy than productive.