strangelyadverb
uk/ˈstreɪndʒ.li/us/ˈstreɪndʒ.li/B2 in a way that is unusual, unexpected, or difficult to understand:
She was strangely calm while everyone else was panicking.
He looked at me rather strangely.
Strangely, nobody seemed to notice.
More examples
- The house looked strangely familiar, though she knew she'd never been there before.
- Is it my imagination or is David behaving strangely at the moment?
- The house, usually bustling with activity, was strangely silent.
- The beat of the music was strangely hypnotic.
- The government has fallen strangely silent on the subject of tax cuts after all its promises at the last election.
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
- random
- rum
- sicko
- singularity
- singularly
- suss
- whacky
- whimsical
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Idiom(s)
strangely enough