UNUSUALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unusually mean? 

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

1. to a remarkable degree or extent

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNUSUALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To a remarkable degree or extent

Synonyms:

notably; remarkably; unco; unusually

Context example:

Notably missing from the network's fall line-up are any half-hour scripted comedies

Pertainym:

unusual (not usual or common or ordinary)

 Context examples 

It was unusually cruel-looking, and at first I had shuddered every time I used it.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Comet P/2016 BA14 follows an unusually similar orbit to that of comet 252P/LINEAR, which was discovered on April 7, 2000.

(A 'Tail' of Two Comets, NASA)

He had evidently been carried down by two persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other unusually large ones.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Why, Mother, she has seemed unusually well since the babies came.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

This information, coupled with field measurements, suggests that no bloom occurred in 2013 because the seed populations of Sargassum measured during winter of 2012 were unusually low.

(Satellites Find Biggest Seaweed Bloom in the World, NASA)

You are the client, but this person certainly won’t be treating you that way, for he or she will be unusually difficult to deal with.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The researchers found that people with the variant had unusually high levels of large HDL-C particles in their blood.

(When HDL cholesterol doesn’t protect against heart disease, NIH)

An epithelial neoplasm characterized by unusually large anaplastic cells.

(Giant Cell Carcinoma, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A skeletal deformity characterized by an unusually prominent forehead.

(Frontal Bossing, NCI Thesaurus)

But Mrs. Gummidge was not the only person there who was unusually excited.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)