surprisingly

English

Etymology

From surprising +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/

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Adverb

surprisingly (comparative more surprisingly, superlative most surprisingly)

1. In a way that causes surprise because it is unexpected, or unusual.

   Synonym: believe it or not (synonymous with the sentence adverb sense)

   Antonyms: unsurprisingly; predictably; as usual (and its synonyms)

   Near-synonyms: unexpectedly, unusually

   The house was surprisingly small for such a numerous family.

   Not surprisingly, the electrician didn't come at the time he had said.

   Chema'd, surprisingly, paid for everything.

   • 2012 April 23, Angelique Chrisafis, “François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election”, in the Guardian‎^[1]:

     François Hollande has moved a step closer to becoming the first Socialist president of France in a generation by beating the incumbent, Nicolas Sarkozy, in the first round of elections. But the surprisingly high vote for the extreme-right candidate, Marine Le Pen, boosted the overall figures for the right and meant that the final runoff vote on 6 May remains on a knife edge.

Usage notes

• This adverb is more often used to modify an adjective than a verb. It also often functions as a disjunct in the form of a sentence adverb.

Translations

in a way that causes surprise because it is unexpected, or unusual

• Albanian: çuditërisht (sq)
• Asturian: sorprendentemente
• Azerbaijani: təəccüblə
• Bashkir: ғәжәп (ğəjəp)
• Breton: eston (br)
• Bulgarian: изненадващо (bg) (iznenadvašto), неочаквано (bg) (neočakvano)
• Catalan: sorprenentment
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 竟 (ging²), 竟然 (ging² jin⁴), 居然 (geoi¹ jin⁴, geoi¹ jin^4-2), 出乎意料地

  Hokkien: 竟 (kèng), 竟然 (zh-min-nan) (kèng-liân, kèng-jiân, kéng-jiân), 居然 (kir-liân, ku-liân, ki-jiân)

  Mandarin: 竟 (zh) (jìng), 竟然 (zh) (jìngrán), 居然 (zh) (jūrán), 出乎意料地 (chūhūyìliào de)

  Wu: 居然 (¹ciu-zoe), 先勿先

• Cornish: marthys
• Czech: překvapivě
• Danish: overraskende
• Dutch: verrassend (nl)
• Esperanto: surprize, surprizante
• Estonian: üllatavalt
• Finnish: ihmeteltävästi (fi), yllätyksellisesti (fi), yllättävän (before adjective), yllättävästi (fi) (before verb), ihme kyllä, ihmeesti (fi) (colloquial)
• French: étonnamment (fr), épatamment (fr), surprenamment (fr)
• Galician: sorprendentemente
• Georgian: გასაოცრად (gasaocrad), მოულოდნელად (moulodnelad)
• German: überraschend (de), überraschenderweise (de), erstaunlicherweise (de)
• Greek: εκπληκτικά (el) (ekpliktiká)
• Hungarian: meglepően (hu), meghökkentően (hu)
• Ido: astonante (io), surprizante
• Indonesian: kejutan (id)
• Irish: go diail
• Italian: sorprendentemente (it), a sorpresa
• Japanese: 驚くほど (おどろくほど, odorokuhodo), 意外に (ja) (いがいに, igai ni), なんと (ja) (nanto), 思いの外 (ja) (おもいのほか, omoi no hoka)
• Kazakh: ғаламат (ğalamat)
• Korean: 뜻밖에 (ko) (tteutbakke), 놀랍게도 (nollapgedo)
• Latvian: pārsteidzoši
• Lithuanian: stebėtinai
• Macedonian: изненадно (iznenadno), за чудо (za čudo)
• Middle English: straungely
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: overraskende (no), forbausende

  Nynorsk: overraskande, forbausande

• Polish: zaskakująco, zadziwiająco
• Portuguese: surpreendentemente
• Romanian: surprinzător (ro)
• Romansch: surprendentamain
• Russian: необыча́йно (ru) (neobyčájno), удиви́тельно (ru) (udivítelʹno)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: за̀чудо

  Roman: zàčudo (sh)

• Slovak: prekvapivo, prekvapujúco
• Slovene: nepričakovano, presenetljivo
• Spanish: asombrosamente (es), sorprendentemente, sorpresivamente, fulminantemente, insospechadamente
• Swedish: överraskande (sv)
• Tagalog: pagkakamangha
• Thai: อย่างแปลกใจ
• Turkish: şaşırtıcı bir şekilde, şaşırtıcı biçimde
• Ukrainian: навдивови́жу (uk) (navdyvovýžu), напро́чуд (napróčud), ди́вно (dývno)
• Vietnamese: không ngờ