refreshingly
/ɹifɹˈɛʃɪŋli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.68 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a refreshing manner.
Example Sentences
- "a refreshingly original film in which the villain defeated the hero"
- "The trade wind blows refreshingly cool across the Point, clearing it of mosquitoes and singing an eternal psalm in the fronds of the coconut palms."
- "Notwithstanding that episode, this film is refreshingly low on scatological gags and other gross-out humor, preferring all-purpose bad jokes to bathroom ones."
- "In a refreshingly honest introduction, it recognised that the hardest part of any strategy is making it happen."
Etymology
Etymology tree English refreshing Middle English -ly English -ly English refreshingly From refreshing + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more refreshingly (comparative)
most refreshingly (superlative)