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uncommonly

adv

Etymology

From uncommon + -ly.

  1. derived from *mey-✻
  2. derived from commūnis
  3. derived from comun
  4. derived from comun
  5. inherited from comun
  6. prefixed as uncommon — “un- + common”
  7. suffixed as uncommonly — “uncommon + ly”

Definitions

  1. To an uncommon degree

    To an uncommon degree; unusually or extremely.

    • It strikes me that you have come off uncommonly easy, seeing as how things were. No mess, no breakages, no odds and ends from every room that you can't remember until it's too late to claim. Just one big lot taken clean.
    • For a gentleman, he was uncommonly rude, but she supposed wearing silk and jade gave him that privilege.

  2. Not often

    Not often; on rare occasions.

    • Not uncommonly, I find that I have arrived too late to catch my train.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA