Synonyms for surprisingly
sur·pris·ing·ly

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1. surprisinglyadverb

   Synonyms:
   unusually, unexpectedly

   Antonyms:
   normally, usual

2. surprisinglyadverb

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

   Synonyms:
   unexpectedly, unusually

   Antonyms:
   usual, normally

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. surprisinglyadverb

   in a surprising manner

   "he was surprisingly friendly"

   Synonyms:
   amazingly, astonishingly

2. amazingly, surprisingly, astonishinglyadverb

   in an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise

   "amazingly, he finished medical school in three years"

   Synonyms:
   amazingly, astonishingly

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1. List of paraphrases for "surprisingly":

   amazingly, astonishingly, strikingly, curiously, remarkably, unexpectedly, stunningly, shockingly, strangely, oddly, paradoxically, interestingly, incredibly

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1. Paul Reiser today .:

   That was the goal, if you could get on the ‘ Tonight Show, ’ that was the standard. So The Tonight Show felt like a great validation … I had played The Tonight Show in my mind so many times, so when I finally got The Tonight Show, The Tonight Show felt surprisingly comfortable. And then when we recreated the set for The Tonight Show, it was eerie … Because I knew what it felt like to sit on that couch. It was electrifying. If you’re a young comedian, but someone has never heard of you, if you’ve done the' Tonight Show, ’ then people think you must be good. That was the only currency people understood. Certainly my parents did. For them, The Tonight Show was like, ‘ All right, he spent all those years staying up late in clubs and making $ 7 a week, but now he must be OK because he was on' The Tonight Show. ’ There was no other show that had that stamp of approval.

2. Bart Wakabayashi:

   It's been surprisingly orderly, as the reaction was expected because of the headlines over the weekend. It could have been much uglier.

3. Ricardo Lacerda:

   Many believed that takeover costs would fall sharply in dollar terms, and they did, but valuations remained surprisingly resilient, brazil is not in a fire sale.

4. Nick Pope:

   Im more interested in the fact that this first photo has been leaked, and in the related leaking of information about the Pentagons Unidentified Aerial Task Force, where serving intelligence community personnel have shared insights from two intelligence positionreports, with my own defense background in this subject, three things stand out. Firstly, the description by one insider of the reports as shocking a wordthat begs the question what about UAP do these people find shocking. Secondly, the fact that the intelligence reports seem to have been given a surprisingly wide distribution in various intelligence agencies, and thirdly, the fact that the extraterrestrial hypothesis seems genuinely not to have been taken off the table.

5. Daniel Webster:

   Not surprisingly, the findings don't make much logical sense when it comes to gun policies other than the finding that universal background checks are protective.