surprisinglyadverb
uk/səˈpraɪ.zɪŋ.li/us/sɚˈpraɪ.zɪŋ.li/B1 unexpectedly or in a way that is unusual:
The restaurant turned out to be surprisingly cheap.
Not surprisingly, the jury found them guilty.
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- The journey was surprisingly hassle-free.
- Many teenagers are surprisingly ignorant about current politics.
- Letters of complaint were surprisingly few in number .
- For such a famous, wealthy man, his personal life was surprisingly simple and ordinary.
- Not surprisingly, this excuse was too much for them to swallow.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Surprising and shocking
- a blinding flash idiom
- a bolt from/out of the blue idiom
- amaze
- amazing
- astonish
- bolt
- breath
- dynamite
- earth-shattering
- expectation
- eye-opener
- faze
- revelation
- spring sth on sb
- staggering
- startle
- startling
- sting
- stunning
- thunderbolt
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