oddlyadverb
uk/ˈɒd.li/us/ˈɑːd.li/C2 in a strange or surprising way:
Didn't you think she was behaving very oddly at the party yesterday?
Oddly enough (= this is strange/surprising), she didn't mention anything about the fact that she was getting married.
More examples
- She's gone away for six months, but oddly enough , her boyfriend doesn't seem too unhappy about it.
- She was dressed very oddly for a country walk.
- He behaved rather oddly at the funeral.
- They were an oddly assorted bunch of people.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Strange, suspicious and unnatural
- aberrant
- abnormal
- add
- bizarre
- curious
- funny ha-ha or funny peculiar? idiom
- kinky
- kooky
- like nothing (else) on earth idiom
- like nothing on earth idiom
- not add up idiom
- peculiarly
- rum
- sicko
- singularity
- singularly
- strange
- suss
- whacky
- whimsical
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