distinctively

1. 1.

   in an identifiably distinctive manner

   “the distinctively conservative district of the county”

Questions about distinctively

What does distinctively mean?

distinctively means "in an identifiably distinctive manner".

How many syllables are in distinctively?

distinctively has 4 syllables: di-stinc-tive-ly. The stress falls on "stinc". In IPA it is /dɪˈstɪŋktɪvli/.

Is distinctively a common word?

distinctively is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.