# surprisingly

Pronunciation: say "suh-PRY-zing-lee" /səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/

## Adverb

1. In a way that causes surprise by being unexpected or unusual.
   - Simple: In a way that surprises people because they did not expect it.
   - _The restaurant was surprisingly quiet for a Friday night._
   - _Surprisingly, the old printer still worked after ten years in the basement._

## Origin

Formed from surprising + the adverb-forming suffix -ly.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/surprisingly (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).