discrepantly
- adverb
- /dɪsˈkrɛpəntli/
:
de manera discrepante
- The students performed discrepantly on the test, with some scoring much higher than others despite similar preparation.
Examples
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Children with developmental problems may also have more discontinuous environments between home and school, or it could be that children with significant developmental problems who get referred actually behave more discrepantly between school and home than do children without such problems.
Academic text (2013) -
At the same time that theorists are focusing discrepantly on production, distribution, or exhibition, they are also taking contrastingly warm or critical stances toward cinematic globalization.
Academic text (2009) -
Her accounts of the event were discrepantly different, making it hard to find out what really happened.
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The data showed discrepantly high figures in the two surveys, indicating a possible error in one of the methods.
Synonyms
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4.1
In a way that is not the same each time
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In a way that sounds or looks unpleasant with other things
In a way that does not fit or match something else
In a way that says or does opposite things
Antonyms
How Different
Surface Forms
Morphology
discrepantly = discrepant (transparent) = discrepant + ly
Standard adverbial derivation: adding '-ly' to the adjective 'discrepant' yields 'in a discrepant way', a direct and typical formation learners can interpret.
Etymology
Discrepantly comes from the word part dis- meaning 'apart' and is like the common word disagree, so it points to things that do not match. So, when something is done discrepantly, it is done in a way that shows a clear difference or that parts do not agree.