strangely
adv/ˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒli/
Etymology
From Middle English straungely (“strangely, aloofly, intricately”); equivalent to strange + -ly.
Definitions
In a strange or coincidental manner.
- Though I'd never gone to Boston before, everything looked strangely familiar.
- Daniel was walking strangely because he had twisted his ankle.
- A tale of gangland warfare and filial loyalty in the Glasgow of 1958, Small Faces is an enjoyable but strangely unmoving film.
Surprisingly, wonderfully.
- […]all thy vexations / Were but my trials of thy love, and thou / Hast strangely stood the test[…]
The neighborhood
- synonymoddly
- synonymuncannily
- synonymweirdly
- synonymalienly
- synonymcuriously
- synonymeccentrically
- synonymenigmatically
- synonympeculiarly
- synonymquaintly
- synonymqueerly
- synonymsingly
- synonymsingularly
- antonymfamiliarly
- antonymmundanely
- antonymnormally
- neighborstrange
- neighborunusually
- neighborcreepily
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for strangely. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA