distinctly

English

Etymology

distinct +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪsˈtɪŋktli/

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Adverb

distinctly (comparative more distinctly, superlative most distinctly)

1. In a distinct manner.

   I distinctly remember the voice of my deceased grandmother.

   • 1880 [1610 March 13], Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, “The Astronomical Messenger”, in Edward Stafford Carlos, transl., The Sidereal Messenger of Galileo Galilei and a Part of the Preface to Kepler's Dioptrics Containing the Original Account of Galileo's Astronomical Discoveries: A Translation with Introduction and Notes, London: Rivingtons, translation of Sidereus Nuncius: […] , →OCLC, page 10:

     About ten months ago a report reached my ears that a Dutchman had constructed a telescope, by the aid of which visible objects, although at a great distance from the eye of the observer, were seen distinctly as if near; […]

   • 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 17, in Well Tackled!‎^[1]:

     Commander Birch was a trifle uneasy when he found there was more than a popple on the sea; it was, in fact, distinctly choppy.

   • 2007, Stephen R. Donaldson, Fatal Revenant, →ISBN, page 192:

     "Aloud," he said distinctly, "the Seven Words are spoken thus. Melenkurion abatha. Duroc minas mill. Harad khabaal."

Antonyms

• indistinctly

Translations

in a distinct manner

• Bulgarian: ясно (bg) (jasno), отчетливо (bg) (otčetlivo)
• Catalan: distintament (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 顯然地／显然地 (zh) (xiǎnrán de), 明顯地／明显地 (zh) (míngxiǎn de)

• French: distinctement (fr)
• Galician: distintamente
• German: deutlich (de)
• Hindi: सुभिन्नतः (subhinnataḥ), भिन्नतः (bhinnataḥ), सुस्पष्टता से (suspaṣṭatā se), सुस्पष्टतया (suspaṣṭatyā), सुस्पष्टतः (suspaṣṭataḥ), सुस्पष्ट रूप से (suspaṣṭ rūp se), साफ़-साफ़ (sāf-sāf), स्पष्टता से (spaṣṭatā se), स्पष्टतया (hi) (spaṣṭatyā), स्पष्टतः (hi) (spaṣṭataḥ), स्पष्ट रूप से (spaṣṭ rūp se)
• Italian: distintamente (it)
• Japanese: はっきりと (ja) (hakkiri to)
• Latin: disertim
• Portuguese: distintamente (pt)
• Russian: отчётливо (ru) (otčótlivo), чётко (ru) (čótko), я́сно (ru) (jásno), вня́тно (ru) (vnjátno) (audibly), членоразде́льно (ru) (členorazdélʹno) (audibly, articulately)
• Spanish: distintamente
• Telugu: స్పష్టంగా (spaṣṭaṅgā)