Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unusually

/ʌnˈjuːʒuəli/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.76 in modern English

Syllables: un-usu-al-ly
IPA: /ʌnˈjuːʒuəli/

12

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

5

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In an unusual manner.

Example Sentences

"She's unusually happy for someone who's just broken her leg."
"My convention diary is unusually disjointed, since I was mingily commuting from Berkshire rather than pay £65 per night for a single room."
"These first English migrants to Jamestown endured terrible disease and arrived during a period of drought and colder-than-normal winters. The migrants to Roanoke on the outer banks of Carolina, where the English had gone in the 1580s, disappeared. And a brief effort to settle the coast of Maine in 1607 and 1608 failed because of an unusually bitter winter."

Etymology

From unusual + -ly or un- + usually.

Inflected Forms

more unusually (comparative) most unusually (superlative)

Frequently Paired Words

occasionally

Synonyms

unwontedly abnormally atypically exceptionally extraordinarily irregularly uncommonly untypically unusually

Antonyms

normally

Questions

How do you pronounce unusually?: The recorded pronunciation is /ʌnˈjuːʒuəli/.
What does unusually mean?: In an unusual manner.
Where does unusually come from?: From unusual + -ly or un- + usually.

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