unusually

adverbattested in dialogue

//ʌnˈjuːʒuəli//

In an unusual manner.

adverb

1
In an unusual manner.
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.

Etymology

From unusual + -ly or un- + usually.

Forms

comparative: more unusually
superlative: most unusually

untraceable · Not able to be traced or tracked down.untrue · False; not true.unusual · Not usual, out of the ordinary.

unusually · In an unusual manner.

unwanted · Not wanted; unwelcome.unwell · Not in good health; not feeling well; somewhat ill unwilling · Not willing; reluctant

The neighbouring pages — Alphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.