weirdly

adv — 2 senses

weirdly

adv

/ˈwɪə(ɹ)dli/

Etymology From weird + -ly.

1

Manner In a weird manner.

  • The teacher suspected he was on drugs because he was behaving weirdly.
  • She wore a necklace strung with weirdly-shaped pearls.
1 more example
  • The cracking sound, he explained, as far as I, a non-plumber, could understand, was the sound of the overworked, undermaintained and weirdly installed heating unit’s core rupturing and spilling water into the basement.2007 February 18, Jake Mooney, “A Case of the Shivers”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022:
2

Contrary to expectations.

  • Weirdly, Alice showed up 10 minutes early. She was usually late for everything.
  • The roughness of the wool was weirdly pleasant.
Synonyms
strangely, oddly, surprisingly

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