unusually

From unusual +‎ -ly or un- +‎ usually.

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈjuːʒuəli/

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• Hyphenation: un‧usu‧al‧ly

unusually (comparative more unusually, superlative most unusually)

1. In an unusual manner.

   She's unusually happy for someone who's just broken her leg.

   • 2005, David Langford, The Sex Column and Other Misprints, page 66:

     My convention diary is unusually disjointed, since I was mingily commuting from Berkshire rather than pay £65 per night for a single room.

   • 2019 November 25, Peter C. Mancall, “Pilgrims survived until the first Thanksgiving thanks to an epidemic that devastated Native Americans”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     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.

• unwontedly