surprisingly

[US]/səˈpraɪzɪ ŋlɪ/
[UK]/sə'praɪzɪŋli/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adv. in a manner that causes astonishment; unexpectedly

Example Sentences

It was surprisingly cheap.

a technique that was surprisingly difficult to master

He had a surprisingly delicate touch.

He plays the piano surprisingly well.

found the gadget surprisingly useful; found the book entertaining.

surprisingly, it's Penn who comes out best.

the meeting proved surprisingly genial.

The biographer's account of the poet's life was surprisingly self-referential.

Not surprisingly, he failed to convert her.

He answered my question in a surprisingly deep bass.

perhaps not surprisingly, he was cautious about committing himself.

he seems surprisingly out of touch with recent economic thinking.

Mares are surprisingly tolerant of the roughness and rudeness of their own offspring.

She told me that my essay was ‘surprisingly good’, which I thought was a backhanded compliment.

Yet look in the periphery of such allegorical tales and you can find some surprisingly accurate vaticination.

10. Yet look in the periphery of such allegorical tales and you can find some surprisingly accurate vaticination.

This is a very quick and surprisingly effective way to limit your opponent's economy and is especially effective against the turtler because they honestly won't be expecting it.

Not surprisingly John Atkin, the head of the crop-protection part of Syngenta, a Swiss agrichemical and seed company, believes the changes are wrong.

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