strangely

From Middle English straungely (“strangely, aloofly, intricately”); equivalent to strange +‎ -ly.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒli/

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strangely (comparative more strangely, superlative most strangely)

1. In a strange or coincidental manner.

   Though I'd never gone to Boston before, everything looked strangely familiar.

   Daniel was walking strangely because he had twisted his ankle.

   • 1996, Film Review:

     A tale of gangland warfare and filial loyalty in the Glasgow of 1958, Small Faces is an enjoyable but strangely unmoving film.

2. (archaic) Surprisingly, wonderfully.
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals), page 1:

     […] all thy vexations / Were but my trials of thy love, and thou / Hast strangely stood the test […]

• oddly
• uncannily
• weirdly

strangely

1. alternative form of straungely