DISTINCTLY Synonyms: 31 Similar and Opposite Words

distinctly

adverb

Definition of distinctly

as in clearly

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Recent Examples of distinctly Historic names like Carpano, Cocchi and Dolin offer distinctly different styles, while newer producers such as 9diDANTE and American makers including Vya and Lo-Fi give curious drinkers even more ways in. — Devin Parr, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026 This isn’t Musgraves’ first venture into lifestyle products with a distinctly sensual bent. — Spin Staff, SPIN, 21 Aug. 2026 Pierre’s work and his eye make plain that no garment, no singular cut or color or embellishment, is distinctly MAGA. — Robin Givhan, Vanity Fair, 19 Aug. 2026 Jacksonville introduces palm trees and a distinctly Floridian feel, while Orlando showcases twin bell towers and Spanish Mission-style architecture at its Amtrak station. — Abby Price, Travel + Leisure, 19 Aug. 2026 That, in turn, led her to the character of Nenad, a proud Macedonian man and member of the Legion of Truth, a distinctly Balkan interpretation of the American MAGA movement. — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 18 Aug. 2026 The result was something distinctly authentic with an underground quality that would have been hard to replicate at a sprawling, weeks-long festival. — Shi Bradley, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2026 Her black frames were huge, curved, and almost completely enveloped around her eyes, to look distinctly bug-like. — Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 18 Aug. 2026 The Professional is a sly inversion of — and indulgent celebration of — action cliches, made at a time when action movies were ubiquitous but often redundant, featuring a succession of distinctly European stars like Schwarzenegger and Van Damme. — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for distinctly

Adverb

Leo July 23 – August 22 An agreement needs to reflect your value clearly today.

— Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 26 Aug. 2026
Experts at the Hanoi summit said the responsibilities of PROs, along with capacity requirements and oversight mechanisms, must be clearly defined in EPR policy.

— Jennifer Bringle, Footwear News, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of clearly

Adverb

It was evidently lost amid the flood of congratulatory messages that arrived on campus that day, and Calhoun didn’t remember it.

— Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 23 Aug. 2026
Thoroughly unimpressed by her suburban idyll, and evidently unmoved by her responsibilities as wife and mother, Denise labors in her basement on a novel whose protagonist wishes to forsake her family for a life in New York.

— Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of evidently

Adverb

The warm applause was a markedly different reception than six years ago, when a fourth-place showing in South Carolina helped derail Buttigieg’s presidential campaign while exposing his failure to connect with Black voters.

— Joey Cappelletti, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026
Super teams share prompts openly, coached by leaders who use the tools themselves, which leaves them markedly less anxious about AI displacing their jobs.

— Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of markedly

Adverb

Attorneys with Howard Cooper, Todd & Weld, the law firm representing Patrick Clancy, are calling statements like that patently false and defamatory, warning of the real-life consequences making such claims can have.

— Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
Outside of Silicon Valley, there is a tendency to dismiss such prophecies as, at best, patently unserious.

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 25 July 2026

Definition of patently

Adverb

There’s an uncanniness to 1970s Harlem here; a magical-realist urban sprawl that’s both palpably gritty and like something from a fairy tale.

— Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Aug. 2026
And yet, Lestat is so palpably alive, which makes the vocal hardening all the more affecting.

— Hannah Giorgis Yohannes, Vanity Fair, 13 July 2026

Definition of palpably

Adverb

The overnight lows will fall to the low and mid-60s, making for noticeably cooler nights.

— The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore Sun, 23 Aug. 2026
Turning the quantum vacuum into a control knob The challenge is that vacuum fluctuations are normally far too weak to noticeably influence the collective behavior of a macroscopic material.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 22 Aug. 2026