0 in a way that is typical of a person or thing:
She gave a characteristically skilful performance.
She was characteristically quiet in the face of all the attention.
1 in a way that reflects the most typical qualities of someone or of something that person often does:
She gave a characteristically brilliant performance.
He remains characteristically confident and optimistic.
In a characteristically tough statement, he vowed retribution for the attack.
As an informal register, comic strips characteristically draw on colloquialisms, phonetic spellings, etc., to convey oral concepts in print.
This process characteristically has two related and mutually mirroring aspects.
Characteristically these reside in different ministries, which structurally practically guarantees problems of communication, co-operation, funding, planning and implementation.
A characteristically ' open ' pastoral parish, its population grew very rapidly in the sixteenth century, but only very slowly (and erratically) thereafter.
Characteristically, variationists handle these data quantitatively, specifying distributional constraints in terms of a greater or lesser likelihood of occurrence rather than as categorical.
