SURPRISINGLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does surprisingly mean? 

• SURPRISINGLY (adverb)
  The adverb SURPRISINGLY has 2 senses:

1. in a surprising manner

2. in an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise

  Familiarity information: SURPRISINGLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SURPRISINGLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a surprising manner

Context example:

he was surprisingly friendly

Pertainym:

surprising (causing surprise or wonder or amazement)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise

Synonyms:

amazingly; astonishingly; surprisingly

Context example:

amazingly, he finished medical school in three years

Pertainym:

surprising (causing surprise or wonder or amazement)

 Context examples 

The new moon last month was a difficult one, making relationships surprisingly challenging.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

But surprisingly, the grains detected by Cassini aren't like that.

(Saturn Spacecraft Samples Interstellar Dust, NASA)

Surprisingly, we found no clear evidence of the impact of memory on the color appearance of toys, fruit or non-facial body skin.

(Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces, National Institutes of Health)

The team's discovery could help solve a cosmic puzzle — a mysterious population of surprisingly massive galaxies from when the universe was only about 10 percent of its current age.

(Stunning Star Birth in Earliest Galaxies, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Surprisingly, the genes they uncovered are from a virus that causes its host to produce offspring with wings.

(Virus genes help determine if pea aphids get wings, National Science Foundation)

Surprisingly, the researchers found that participants with high levels of NA antibodies experienced a more robust protective effect from the vaccine than did those in the high HA group.

(Study finds factors that may influence influenza vaccine effectiveness, NIH)

In August 2015, NIH surprisingly ended the trial early after initial results showed that 3.3 years of intensive treatment significantly reduced the rates of death and cardiovascular disease.

(Intensive blood pressure control may slow age-related brain damage, National Institutes of Health)

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has returned the best color and the highest resolution images yet of Pluto’s largest moon, Charon – and these pictures show a surprisingly complex and violent history.

(Pluto’s Big Moon Charon Reveals a Colorful and Violent History, NASA)

Surprisingly, the phenomenon is not particularly understood, though it is thought that their underlying causes include dehydration, our immune response, and disturbances of our metabolism and hormone.

(Wine before beer, or beer before wine? Either way, you’ll be hungover, University of Cambridge)

Surprisingly, when the researchers treated normal healthy mice with SA-4-1BBL alone, the mice were protected when the researchers later exposed them to different types of tumor cells.

(Immune Stimulant Molecule Protects against Cancer Development, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)