surprisingly
adverb
sur·pris·ing·ly
sər-ˈprī-ziŋ-lē 
sə-
1
: in a surprising manner : to a surprising degree
a surprisingly fast runner
2
: it is surprising that
surprisingly, voter turnout was high
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The signal that reaches us from that time is surprisingly uniformly distributed across the sky, no matter where the detectors are pointed.
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Toni Sutton, PEOPLE, 24 May 2026
This pair is surprisingly easy to style and allows for plenty of airflow on annoyingly hot days.
—Annie Blackman, InStyle, 23 May 2026
The woman’s one visible breast is, surprisingly, nearly flat, but her nipple is round and oversized and rosy, like a Christmas-tree ornament or a clown’s rubber nose.
—Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 23 May 2026
The signal that reaches us from that time is surprisingly uniformly distributed across the sky, no matter where the detectors are pointed.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 23 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for surprisingly
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surprisingly
adverb
sur·pris·ing·ly
-lē
1
: in a surprising manner : to a surprising degree
a surprisingly fast runner
2
: it is surprising that
surprisingly, no one disagreed
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