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SURPRISINGLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a surprising manner

Example:

he was surprisingly friendly

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

surprising (causing surprise or wonder or amazement)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise

Example:

amazingly, he finished medical school in three years

Synonyms:

amazingly; astonishingly; surprisingly

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

surprising (causing surprise or wonder or amazement)

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 Context examples: 

Surprisingly, infants in the study who received diuretic therapy were more likely to require respiratory support, compared to extremely preterm infants with similar respiratory problems who did not receive the therapy.

(Diuretic therapy for extremely preterm infants does not alleviate respiratory problems, National Institutes of Health)

The findings confirm accelerating ice losses from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and reveal surprisingly steady rates of flow from its much larger neighbor to the east.

(New Study Brings Antarctic Ice Loss Into Sharper Focus, NASA)

Surprisingly, about 1% of the amino acid methionine was attached to the "wrong" tRNAs, or misacylated, in both cells in tissue culture and liver cells in a living mouse.

(Genes Can be Read in Different Ways, NIH, US)

Surprisingly, cells began to form spatial wave patterns, where neighbour cells lag in time slightly behind one another.

(Plants can tell time even without a brain, University of Cambridge)

But surprisingly, the individual stems had shrunk by 16%.

(High carbon dioxide can create 'shrinking stems' in marshes, National Science Foundation)

Surprisingly, however, children with the highest level of exposure to allergens from cockroaches, mice, and cats during their first year were least likely to have recurrent wheezing at age 3.

(Infant Exposure to Allergens May Help Prevent Wheezing, NIH)

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has found a target unlike anything it has studied before — bedrock with surprisingly high levels of silica.

(Curiosity Rover Inspects Unusual Bedrock, NASA)

This was a tall young man, surprisingly handsome, with a dark, fierce face, and the limbs and chest of a Hercules.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The ecologists discovered that grasslands can be surprisingly tough.

(Environmental change is triggering an identity switch in grasslands, National Science Foundation)

Sleep deficiency and daytime drowsiness are surprisingly widespread, with drowsiness affecting up to 20% of all children.

(Children Who Nap Are Happier, Have Higher IQ, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)