UNCOMMONLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does uncommonly mean? 

• UNCOMMONLY (adverb)
  The adverb UNCOMMONLY has 1 sense:

1. exceptionally

  Familiarity information: UNCOMMONLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNCOMMONLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Exceptionally

Context example:

a common remedy is uncommonly difficult to find

Pertainym:

uncommon (not common or ordinarily encountered; unusually great in amount or remarkable in character or kind)

 Context examples 

I have heard, indeed, that she is uncommonly improved within this year or two.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

She says there was hardly any veal to be got at market this morning, it is so uncommonly scarce.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I was most uncommonly shocked, indeed!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

He is uncommonly clever, if one can judge from his face, and full of energy.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I had an uncommonly good time that day, and haven't got over it yet.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Mr. James took quite uncommonly to the young woman; and was more settled, for a length of time, than I have known him to be since I have been in his service.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This is very painful—very painful and terrible, said Mr. Scott Eccles in a querulous voice, but it is really uncommonly hard on me.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The winter, however, was spent cheerfully; and although the spring was uncommonly late, when it came its beauty compensated for its dilatoriness.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The day was uncommonly lovely.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I think every thing has passed off uncommonly well, I assure you.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)