unusually
adv/ʌnˈjuːʒuəli/
Etymology From unusual + -ly or un- + usually.
1
In an unusual manner.
- She's unusually happy for someone who's just broken her leg.
- 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:
1 more example
- 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:
- Synonyms
- unwontedly, abnormally, atypically, exceptionally, extraordinarily, irregularly, uncommonly, untypically, unusually
- Antonyms
- normally
- Related terms
- occasionally
- Hypernyms
- specifically
- Hyponyms
- oddly, strangely, surprisingly, unexpectedly