Skip to main content
stylistically

stylistically

7 6.3
In a way that shows the typical look, sound, or way of doing things
  • adverb
  • /stəˈlɪstɪkli/
translation icon : estilísticamente
  • The movie is rich in detail and stylistically captures the essence of the 1980s perfectly.
  • stylistically and formally
  • stylistically and thematically
  • stylistically appropriate

So you're just looking stylistically and making your best guess.

Autoplay Next

Examples

  • Over the last decade, another Palestinian filmmaker, Elia Suleiman, has presented a stylistically and thematically new outlook on the issue.

    Academic text (2005)
  • In a choral classroom, stylistically diverse and distinctive repertoire forms the centerpiece of instruction.

    Academic text (1993)
  • On paper and stylistically, it is a brilliant drive.

  • You know, those are real iconic, stylistically important films of our time.

  • You really did take it in a very different direction stylistically and that in turn emotionally had an impact on people looking at it.

  • Other carved wood figures are larger but stylistically very similar to the tadep.

    Academic text (1994)
  • In this article, I have inventoried eight stylistically comparable male figures.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Each study was different technically and stylistically, and together the twelve were a monument to Romanticism.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • The panels that were joined with portraits to form diptychs tend to be stylistically consistent with those portraits.

    Academic text (2006)
  • Is our understanding and definition of the modern novel too narrow stylistically, philosophically, or ideologically?

    Fiction book (1996)

How Stylistic

ornately
2 6.0
stylistically
7 6.3
neutrally
2 3.6

Surface Forms

stylistically positive

Morphology

stylistically = stylistic (transparent) = style + istic + ally

The adverb is a regular derivation from the adjective 'stylistic' using the productive adverbial suffix '-ally', so the manner-of-style meaning is directly derived.

Etymology

Stylistically comes from style, a word that once named a small pointed tool for writing and later came to mean a person's 'way' of doing or showing things, and you can see the same root in stylist. So stylistically, with the endings -istic ('related to') and -ally ('in a way'), means 'in a way that shows a particular style', which is why we use it to talk about how something is expressed or made.