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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
surprisingly
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
easy
▪ Provided proper rope management has been employed it is surprisingly easy to arrest a slide.
▪ The Chargers dominated the Raiders on both sides of the line, walking away with a surprisingly easy victory.
▪ If you don't want direct mail from any company there is a surprisingly easy remedy.
▪ It was surprisingly easy to get the wing aloft with a step backwards and a sharp tug on the front risers.
▪ It is surprisingly easy to pick up the physical tension and the negative emotions of others if you are at all sensitive.
▪ But it is a surprisingly easy drive.
▪ His strange quiet co-existence with Marcus was facilitated by his now surprisingly easy relations with Irina, they even teased each other.
▪ This lets you produce standalone applications for end-users and it's surprisingly easy to get started with.
good
▪ It was just a feel-good song, a piece of ephemera, and Lucy was feeling surprisingly good.
▪ A surprisingly good squad, considering they have almost all new starters and a new coach.
▪ The picture quality, even on a large screen, is surprisingly good.
▪ It can be surprisingly good or exceedingly bad.
▪ The result was often surprisingly good, with a considerable degree of wit although no humour.
▪ When we did start playing proper gigs we got surprisingly good money.
▪ We'd been on surprisingly good terms up till then.
▪ Unusually for a central London club, the Gardening Club is surprisingly good.
high
▪ Inevitably some fall by the wayside, but his success rate is surprisingly high considering the breadth of the repertoire he tackles.
▪ A surprisingly high number took them up on the deal, he said.
▪ John Gravelle says the standard here of individual players is surprisingly high.
▪ The tapes and scores which they produce come across with real sincerity, and display surprisingly high levels of competence.
▪ The agreement between the figures is surprisingly high.
▪ But it is usually there, in surprisingly high quantities.
▪ Eight times out of ten seeking ideas succeeds in eliciting an idea and that is a surprisingly high hit rate.
large
▪ The one-acre garden at Fenton is a surprisingly large oasis of peace, bounded by high walls.
▪ Arjunas must make up a surprisingly large fraction of the bodies striking Earth.
▪ Nevertheless, a surprisingly large number of artists continued to work in a realist manner.
▪ But there was a surprisingly large contingent of newsmen.
▪ There was also a surprisingly large contingent watching another golfer at his putting practice.
▪ In another similarity to a primary contest, political activists say a surprisingly large portion of the Iowa Republicans remain undecided.
▪ Franchise operations seem to provide a surprisingly large amount of luck to judge by their substantially better survival rates.
▪ Then add monthly totals together-it will be a surprisingly large total.
little
▪ Television coverage had surprisingly little impact on trends in party credibility.
▪ But there is surprisingly little weed.
▪ Yet surprisingly little research has been conducted into the subject, at least in Britain.
▪ Branch managers and staff have changed surprisingly little as a breed, for all the brighter uniforms and open plan offices.
▪ However, there is surprisingly little in this book on what marriage and divorce meant to the men and women involved.
▪ The town has changed surprisingly little over the years.
▪ There is surprisingly little literature which explores these questions in curricular terms.
low
▪ The profit margin in advertising is surprisingly low, currently about 1-2%.
▪ The climate is certainly milder, the atmosphere more relaxed, the golf unbeatable and the prices surprisingly low.
▪ Posy Simmonds' whimsical humour comes as a welcome relief in a medium that is surprisingly low on laughs.
▪ These numbers are surprisingly low, no junction had a mean accident or risk rating above the midpoint of the scale.
small
▪ Khotan itself, despite its prestige, was surprisingly small.
▪ The list of Golden Globes voters on the receiving end is surprisingly small.
▪ Even when he holds up his hands, they're surprisingly small and virtually unmarked.
▪ Even so, this is a surprisingly small area.
strong
▪ Her thin arms were surprisingly strong.
▪ Rohmer was surprisingly strong, but the impetus of Cardiff's lunge spun him away from the girl.
▪ The forces generated in this way are surprisingly strong.
▪ Strands of a cobweb are surprisingly strong but they can snap.
▪ I tried to force her back to bed, but her fever made her surprisingly strong.
■ VERB
seem
▪ For some one who appeared so gleefully wicked and amoral, Cleo seemed surprisingly dim when it came to character judgment.
▪ The experimental protocol was indeed there, but the actual details seemed surprisingly scant.
▪ They usually operate at 12 volts, but in the darkness of the garden even a low-powered light can seem surprisingly bright.
▪ At each round the Confederate artillerymen gave a shout, which seemed surprisingly near.
▪ It seemed surprisingly hot in the carriage for the time of year.
▪ It was small, but seemed surprisingly well stocked for a peasant's shack.
▪ Certainly he seemed surprisingly agile in that moment.
▪ Away from her home ground she seemed surprisingly ill at ease at first, almost shy.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It's surprisingly warm this morning.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And surprisingly only one in five teenagers questioned had been taught about homosexuality and lesbianism in school.
▪ By this time, the Tour was, not surprisingly, in crisis.
▪ Not surprisingly the company turned to obvious areas of cost-cutting and revenue- raising.
▪ Not surprisingly, most companies eagerly accept this offer.
▪ Students are bright, articulate, self-confident and surprisingly mature.
▪ Television coverage had surprisingly little impact on trends in party credibility.
▪ The experimental protocol was indeed there, but the actual details seemed surprisingly scant.
▪ This, after I had learned how to work with people with cancer, often proved surprisingly effective.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Surprisingly

Surprising \Sur*pris"ing\, a. Exciting surprise; extraordinary; of a nature to excite wonder and astonishment; as, surprising bravery; a surprising escape from danger. -- Sur*pris"ing*ly, adv. -- Sur*pris"ing*ness, n.

Syn: Wonderful; extraordinary; unexpected; astonishing; striking.

Wiktionary
surprisingly

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

WordNet
surprisingly

  1. adv. in a surprising manner; "he was surprisingly friendly"

  2. in an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise; "amazingly, he finished medical school in three years" [syn: amazingly, astonishingly]

Usage examples of "surprisingly".

Every physical comportment is the immanent product of a struggle or a pact among competing demonic forces: hence the violent, yet often surprisingly delicate, ambivalence with which the body expresses heterogeneous or conflicting intentions.

None too surprisingly, the Naked Purple movement had never gotten along well with the Autocrat of Ceres.

A guard, dressed in surprisingly severe plate armor, brandishing a spear in one hand and a turkey leg in the other, stood by the open gate.

Impersonation has been at the heart of many detective stories, but it has seldom carried the emotional charge of Brat Farrar, and our sympathies are never in a mere puzzle so skilfully and so surprisingly manipulated.

He took the other, tying triple knots in the thong that held his burse to his belt, loosening his jerkin, swinging his booted feet onto the hard, thin mattress, and pulling up a blanket of surprisingly soft merino.

They were leathery, hairy, dark-skinned feet, broad and flat and surprisingly long, with toes so extrusile and multiple jointed that they almost seemed to have the function of fingers.

It was a narrower room, furnished with a square oak table and heavy, old-fashioned chairs with surprisingly comfortable saddle-seats, and a court-cupboard decorated with maiolica plates and dishes from the same set as those in his office.

He and Malet arrived with a strong escort and three stout carts drawn by oxen, carrying the lead-lined oak coffins which, surprisingly, William had provided.

Holy Orders than a boy of thirteen: a richly illuminated Book of Hours, a rosewood and silver crucifix worthy of a cathedral chapel, a relic of the martyred Saint Willim sealed in a crystal reliquary, and from Hubert, a starkly functional silver chalice and paten and a chasuble of creamy wool, surprisingly plain compared to the other gifts.

He looks surprisingly fit for a fifty-six-year-old man with metastatic carcinoma.

Thus, surprisingly, and despite the overhanging shadow of Montayne, the company climate suddenly looked brighter.

Once there, it had proved surprisingly difficult to find a boatman who would either admit to knowing the whereabouts of San Vitale in Palude, or show himself willing to take them to its shores.

The curved console in front of him was surprisingly compact, with three holographic panes angling up out of it.

It was surprisingly close to the lodge, but well screened by trees and shrubs, a fair-sized house with fine pargeting and black and white timber cladding.

Michael and Kerena, followed by Billy and Denise, sandwiching a surprisingly participatory Captain St.