unusually

Definition

In an unusual manner.

Etymology

From unusual + -ly or un- + usually.

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "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."

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