unusually

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
17
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ʌnˈjuːʒuəli/

Definition of unusually

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  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.”

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Etymology

From unusual + -ly or un- + usually.

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