Definitions for surprisingly
sur·pris·ing·ly

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. surprisinglyadverb

   in a surprising manner

   "he was surprisingly friendly"

2. amazingly, surprisingly, astonishinglyadverb

   in an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise

   "amazingly, he finished medical school in three years"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. surprisinglyadverb

   In a way that causes surprise because it is unexpected, or unusual.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Surprisinglyadverb

   To a degree that raises wonder; in a manner that raises wonder.

   Etymology: from surprising.

   If out of these ten thousand, we should take the men that are employed in publick business, the number of those who remain will be surprizingly little. Addison.

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1. surprisingly

   Surprise (pronunciation ) is a brief mental and physiological state, a startle response experienced by animals and humans as the result of an unexpected event. Surprise can have any valence; that is, it can be neutral/moderate, pleasant, unpleasant, positive, or negative. Surprise can occur in varying levels of intensity ranging from very-surprised, which may induce the fight-or-flight response, or little-surprise that elicits a less intense response to the stimuli.

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1. surprisingly

   Surprisingly is an adverb that is used to describe something happening or being the case which is unexpected, unusual or not anticipated. It can also represent a sense of amazement, wonder, or disbelief. It expresses the occurrence of an event or situation that is considered astonishing or remarkable.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'surprisingly' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3626

2. Adverbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'surprisingly' in Adverbs Frequency: #260

How to pronounce surprisingly?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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How to say surprisingly in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of surprisingly in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of surprisingly in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of surprisingly in a Sentence

1. Renee Powell:

   The coolest part about this is the large sizes sold out first. So we really thought it was going to be the smalls, like the ladies, and the support from the ladies has been great, but surprisingly the large/extra large sold out first, like within hours. It’s crazy, it’s been really, really amazing the support, and people wearing it, tagging me on Instagram. It just makes my day seeing the different types of people wearing it and kids wearing it and people that you don’t expect to wear it.

2. Laura Simpson:

   Surprisingly, the dog is in fairly good, physical condition, the blindness of course is from a pre-existing condition, but he’s not in foster care and we’re hoping he can find a home where he’s loved and respected in the way he should be.

3. Marcel Neeleman:

   The fact that we found the Wolfe Disk using this method, tells us that it belongs to the normal population of galaxies present at early times, when our newest observations with ALMA surprisingly showed that it is rotating, we realized that early rotating disk galaxies are not as rare as we thought and that there should be a lot more of them out there. Thanks to ALMA, we now have unambiguous evidence that they occur as early as 1.5 billion years after Big Bang.

4. Mikael Rautanen:

   The decline in (Nokia's) wireless networks was surprisingly fierce ... The market remains difficult, which seems to add pressure to step up their cost-savings program.

5. Sean Schulte:

   We had the idea several years ago when we were quoting 'The Simpsons' at each other all day long, and it was surprisingly difficult to find an image of the scenes we were quoting on Google.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=surprisingly
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Surprisingly
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=surprisingly
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surprisingly
5. ^ ChatGPT
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