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unusually en · ADV

Pronunciation

  • /ʌnˈjuːʒuəli/
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Etymology

From unusual + -ly or un- + usually.

Meanings

  1. In an unusual manner.
    • My convention diary is unusually disjointed, since I was mingily commuting from Berkshire rather than pay £65 per night for a single room. 2005, David Langford, The Sex Column and Other Misprints, page 66:
    • These first English migrants to Jamestown endured terrible disease and arrived during a period of drought and colder-than-normal winters. The migrants to Roanoke on the outer banks of Carolina, where the English had gone in the 1580s, disappeared. And a brief effort to settle the coast of Maine in 1607 and 1608 failed because of an unusually bitter winter. 2019 November 25, Peter C. Mancall, “Pilgrims survived until the first Thanksgiving thanks to an epidemic that devastated Native Americans”, in CNN:
    • She's unusually happy for someone who's just broken her leg.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
more unusually Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most unusually Degree=Sup lexicographic

Antonyms

normally

Hypernyms

specifically

Hyponyms

unexpectedly · oddly · surprisingly · strangely

Relateds

occasionally

Synonyms

untypically · irregularly · unusually · abnormally · extraordinarily · exceptionally · unwontedly · atypically · uncommonly

Translations (23)

es inusualmente (in an unusual manner) · la ūsūrpātīvē (in an unusual manner) · fr inhabituellement (in an unusual manner) · lv neparasti (in an unusual manner) · ru необыкнове́нно (in an unusual manner) · nl ongewoon (in an unusual manner) · ro ciudat (in an unusual manner) · it insolitamente (in an unusual manner) · it stranamente (in an unusual manner) · fr étonnamment (in an unusual manner) · ru необы́чно (in an unusual manner) · hu szokatlanul (in an unusual manner) · de ungewöhnlich (in an unusual manner) · is óvanalega (in an unusual manner) · gl inusualmente (in an unusual manner) · is óvenjulega (in an unusual manner) · fi epätavallisesti (in an unusual manner) · fi tavattomasti (in an unusual manner) · ru непривы́чно (in an unusual manner) · fr étrangement (in an unusual manner) · ru необыча́йно (in an unusual manner) · it curiosamente (in an unusual manner) · pl niezwykle (in an unusual manner)