Characteristically
adverb
In a way that shows what is normal or typical for a particular person, group, or thing.
She characteristically forgets to save her work before turning off the computer.
Often appears as...
- characteristically forgot
- characteristically manner
adverb
In a way that is unique or special to a particular person, group, or thing.
The artwork is characteristically colorful and evocative.
Often appears as...
- characteristically colorful
- characteristically evocative
adverb
In a way that shows what is normal or typical for a particular person, group, or thing.
She characteristically forgets to save her work before turning off the computer.
Often appears as...
- characteristically forgot
- characteristically manner
adverb
In a way that is unique or special to a particular person, group, or thing.
The artwork is characteristically colorful and evocative.
Often appears as...
- characteristically colorful
- characteristically evocative
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Common Behavior
Use to hint at someone acting as they usually do, often predictably.
He characteristically arrived late to the meeting, as expected.
Pro Tip 2/3Group Norms
Describes behavior or attributes common to a specific group.
The birds characteristically migrate south during winter.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Traits
Can imply a less-than-desirable habitual action.
Characteristically, he avoided confrontation.
Pro Tip 1/3Common Behavior
Use to hint at someone acting as they usually do, often predictably.
He characteristically arrived late to the meeting, as expected.
Pro Tip 2/3Group Norms
Describes behavior or attributes common to a specific group.
The birds characteristically migrate south during winter.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Traits
Can imply a less-than-desirable habitual action.
Characteristically, he avoided confrontation.
Pro Tip 1/3Common Behavior
Use to hint at someone acting as they usually do, often predictably.
He characteristically arrived late to the meeting, as expected.
Pro Tip 2/3Group Norms
Describes behavior or attributes common to a specific group.
The birds characteristically migrate south during winter.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Traits
Can imply a less-than-desirable habitual action.
Characteristically, he avoided confrontation.
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Video examples
Marc Pachter: The art of...
That's the problem here, and she's fighting me for that, and so then I asked her a question -- I didn't know how I was going to get out of it -- I asked her a question about her days as a playwright, and again, characteristically, instead of saying, "Oh yes, I was a playwright, and this is what blah blah blah,"
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Safari Live - Day 166 PIPE...
my favorite cat Azure sauna movie see is down on the sandy tool under low sea area it's predicted he'd probably move away to go and wow some other people with his antics their attendees here to say and characteristically a young cub
Video examples
Marc Pachter: The art of...
That's the problem here, and she's fighting me for that, and so then I asked her a question -- I didn't know how I was going to get out of it -- I asked her a question about her days as a playwright, and again, characteristically, instead of saying, "Oh yes, I was a playwright, and this is what blah blah blah,"
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 166 PIPE...
my favorite cat Azure sauna movie see is down on the sandy tool under low sea area it's predicted he'd probably move away to go and wow some other people with his antics their attendees here to say and characteristically a young cub
Example 1 of 2
Quote examples
Alison Gopnik
American Psychologist
For better or worse, we live in possible worlds as much as actual ones. We are cursed by that characteristically human guilt and regret about what might have been in the past. But that may be the cost for our ability to hope and plan for what might be in the future.
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Glen Duncan
British Author
I'm not quite sure when I began to be troubled by the creeping sense of my own ludicrousness, but it persisted - and eventually grew into a fascination. I started writing about it. Thus, in His characteristically mysterious way, the Lord made clear His plans for me.
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Tony Judt
British Historian
Social democrats are characteristically modest - a political quality whose virtues are overestimated. We need to apologise a little less for our shortcomings and speak more assertively of achievements. That these were always incomplete should not trouble us.
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Tony Judt
British Historian
What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that they tend to, or else that the default condition of historical trajectories is characteristically beneficial in the long-run.
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Steven Sinofsky
American Businessman
My father, an entrepreneur but hardly a technologist, was looking to buy a computer to 'automate' our family business. In 1981, he characteristically dove head first into computing and bought an Osborne I.
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Michelle Dean
American Journalist
My parents and I - I'm an only child - are not particularly religious, but I was christened and raised in that vague and characteristically Canadian form of Protestantism known as the United Church.
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Wendell Berry
American Poet
Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.
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Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
English Politician
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
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Arthur E. Morgan
American Public Servant
Humanists are not characteristically strong in faith, hope and love.
Quote examples
Alison Gopnik
American Psychologist
For better or worse, we live in possible worlds as much as actual ones. We are cursed by that characteristically human guilt and regret about what might have been in the past. But that may be the cost for our ability to hope and plan for what might be in the future.
Quote examples
Glen Duncan
British Author
I'm not quite sure when I began to be troubled by the creeping sense of my own ludicrousness, but it persisted - and eventually grew into a fascination. I started writing about it. Thus, in His characteristically mysterious way, the Lord made clear His plans for me.
Quote examples
Tony Judt
British Historian
Social democrats are characteristically modest - a political quality whose virtues are overestimated. We need to apologise a little less for our shortcomings and speak more assertively of achievements. That these were always incomplete should not trouble us.
Quote examples
Tony Judt
British Historian
What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that they tend to, or else that the default condition of historical trajectories is characteristically beneficial in the long-run.
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Steven Sinofsky
American Businessman
My father, an entrepreneur but hardly a technologist, was looking to buy a computer to 'automate' our family business. In 1981, he characteristically dove head first into computing and bought an Osborne I.
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Michelle Dean
American Journalist
My parents and I - I'm an only child - are not particularly religious, but I was christened and raised in that vague and characteristically Canadian form of Protestantism known as the United Church.
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Wendell Berry
American Poet
Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.
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Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
English Politician
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
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Arthur E. Morgan
American Public Servant
Humanists are not characteristically strong in faith, hope and love.
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