strangely
adverbcommon in dialogue
- //ˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒli//
In a strange or coincidental manner.
adverb
- 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.
A tale of gangland warfare and filial loyalty in the Glasgow of 1958, Small Faces is an enjoyable but strangely unmoving film.
- 2
archaicSurprisingly, wonderfully.
[…]all thy vexations / Were but my trials of thy love, and thou / Hast strangely stood the test[…]
Etymology
From Middle English straungely (“strangely, aloofly, intricately”); equivalent to strange + -ly.
Forms
- comparative
- more strangely
- superlative
- most strangely
stranded · Abandoned or marooned.strange · Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary,…Strange · A surname.
strangely · In a strange or coincidental manner.
stranger · A person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a…strangle · To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the…strangling · The crime of killing by strangling.