0 in a way that is typical of a person or thing: --
She was characteristically quiet in the face of all the attention.
She gave a characteristically skilful performance.
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.
This may indicate that the incomes of budding entrepreneurs are characteristically low.
But abrupt changes can seldom be anticipated from signals that are characteristically received by the world's decision-makers.
Thus, they characteristically (and justifiably) adopt a method of abstracting away from structural complexities.
More characteristically, the chapters devoted to government provide illuminating sketches of elite politics.
Within this framework, of course, the judgment of a person's moral goodness depends on the discernment of what is characteristically human.
Nations are not natural or ancient forms of organizing communities but characteristically modern ways of imagining a shared sense of belonging.
These attitudes were characteristically extended to philanthropical, as well as commercial, establishments.
Because symbols characteristically have motivating appeal, their power for seduction is strong.
