curiously
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4.1
- adverb
- /ˈkjʊəriəsli/
:
curiosamente
- The very thought of it made Charlotte feel upset and curiously lonely.
- curiously enough
- Yet, curiously
He says a medieval city was curiously divided.
- He says a medieval city was curiously divided.
- you know. Curiously, the contact patch actually isn't even that bad.
- However, neutrons, curiously enough, are actually unstable if they are on their own.
Examples
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In the living room, there was complete silence, a curiously charged silence.
Fiction book (1995) -
Curiously, Harrison lives for his cats.
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Means, curiously, not much in a practical sense.
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No more than a foot in height, these trees seem curiously out of place.
Fiction book (1996) -
And the defendants argument, curiously, is that they do not want consumers to be confused.
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The first city in the Bible is curiously called Enoch.
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The dig captured the public imagination and proved curiously conducive to romance.
Academic text (2011) -
The second most intelligent creatures were dolphins, who, curiously enough, had long known of the impending destruction of the planet Earth.
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Curiously enough, the Civil War was created in just this fashion, half with one Rothschild brother financially supporting the North, and half with the other Rothschild brother supporting the South.
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The old building looked curiously different from the photographs we had seen.
Synonyms
272
2.5
In a way that people do not expect
190
3.2
In an unusual or unexpected way
184
3.5
To a very unusual or surprising degree
150
3.4
In a strange or unexpected way
122
2.3
In a way that causes surprise or wonder
106
3.3
More than normal or expected
67
4.6
In a way that is strange and hard to understand
35
3.5
In a strange or unexpected way
17
4.6
In a way that is not normal or usual
14
7.7
In a very unusual and surprising way
12
4.4
In a strange or unexpected way
12
4.7
In a way that seems strange or not natural
10
5.3
To a much higher level than usual
9
5.3
Shows that something is strange or surprising
8
5.6
In a way that makes people feel very surprised
5
6.9
In a way that is strange, surprising, and hard to explain
3
6.2
In a strange way that people notice
1
8.2
Seems very strange and different from what people expect
1
8.2
In a way that is not normal or expected
1
8.3
In a strange way that feels odd
1
8.3
In a mysterious way that is hard to understand
1
6.8
In an odd, playful way that shows personal style
1
7.3
In a way that is different from what most people expect
1
8.1
In an unusual way that is not normal
1
6.1
In a way that is confusing and hard to understand
In a very strange way that feels surprising
In a way that is not usual or expected
Antonyms
How Strange
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Curiously also came to mean 'strangely' because something that makes us curious often seems odd or unexpected, and we call that 'curious'. A helpful way to remember this is that if something is so unusual it makes you wonder, you can describe it as curiously strange.