Meanings
comparative more unusually · superlative most unusually
- In an unusual manner.
She's unusually happy for someone who's just broken her leg.
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My convention diary is unusually disjointed, since I was mingily commuting from Berkshire rather than pay £65 per night for a single room.
2005, David Langford, The Sex Column and Other Misprints, page 66These 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.
2019 November 25, Peter C. Mancall, “Pilgrims survived until the first Thanksgiving thanks to an epidemic that devastated Native Americans”, in CNNSynonyms: unwontedly, abnormally, atypically, exceptionally, extraordinarily, irregularly, uncommonly, untypically
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbIn an unusual manner.
More synonyms by meaning
adverbto a remarkable degree or extent
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
From unusual + -ly or un- + usually.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Dutch ongewoon
- ongewoonin an unusual manner
Finnish epätavallisesti, tavattomasti
- epätavallisestiin an unusual manner
- tavattomastiin an unusual manner
French inhabituellement, étrangement
- inhabituellementin an unusual manner
- étrangementin an unusual manner
- étonnammentin an unusual manner
German ungewöhnlich
- ungewöhnlichin an unusual manner
Hungarian szokatlanul
- szokatlanulin an unusual manner
Icelandic óvenjulega, óvanalega
- óvenjulegain an unusual manner
- óvanalegain an unusual manner
Italian insolitamente, stranamente
- insolitamentein an unusual manner
- stranamentein an unusual manner
- curiosamentein an unusual manner
Latin ūsūrpātīvē
- ūsūrpātīvēin an unusual manner
Latvian neparasti
- neparastiin an unusual manner
Polish niezwykle
- niezwyklein an unusual manner
Romanian ciudat
- ciudatin an unusual manner
Russian необы́чно, необыча́йно
- необы́чно (neobýčno)in an unusual manner
- необыча́йно (neobyčájno)in an unusual manner
- необыкнове́нно (neobyknovénno)in an unusual manner
- непривы́чно (neprivýčno)in an unusual manner
Spanish inusualmente
- inusualmentein an unusual manner
Cite this entry
unusually. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unusually
“unusually.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unusually. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unusually,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unusually.
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