distractingly
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5.9
- adverb
- /dɪˈstræktɪŋli/
:
de manera distractora
- The same for barriers, which are now a dull grey, rather than the distractingly alluring bright yellow of Paradise.
- distractingly so
This man, Joseph D Galvez, I later met and questioned, and he proved distractingly imaginative.
- This man, Joseph D Galvez, I later met and questioned, and he proved distractingly imaginative.
Examples
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The cool thing is that if you're making something so distractingly colorful, people will think it's delicious no matter what.
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What are we to make of those distractingly polemical claims?
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And Willie Jones was surrounded by distractingly hot dancers.
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If you're reading that little screen and distractingly nodding at those around you, that is not positive eye contact.
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In the case of 30 Rock, almost every person I know fits the mold of one of those characters, and it's distractingly easy to cast your officemates as 30 Rock characters.
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Lovely's acting is distractingly over the top (although the audience seems to enjoy it), making it impossible to take her seriously when the more dramatic scenes require her to tone it down.
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I used to play video games all the time, but I stopped when I realized they weren't improving me; they were just entertaining me (distractingly so).
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I wish the entire film had focused on that, and didn't feel the need to tack on the rest of its distractingly outlandish exploits for the sake of adventure.
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The speaker was so distractingly funny that the audience couldn't focus on the topic.
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The bright colors on the painting were distractingly vibrant, making it hard to concentrate on the details.
Synonyms
In a way that draws attention and annoys people
In a loud, out of control way that draws attention
How Distracting
Surface Forms
Morphology
distractingly = distracting (transparent) = distract + ing + ly
Formed by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'distracting', which itself is transparently 'distract' + '-ing'.
Etymology
The word distractingly comes from dis- meaning 'apart' and tract meaning 'to pull', the same root you see in tractor and attract. So something described as distractingly bright or loud is like a force that 'pulls' your attention away and makes it hard to focus.