unsurprisingly
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3.7
- adverb
- /ˌʌn.sərˈpraɪ.zɪŋ.li/
:
como era de esperar
- As for MI5 and the police, unsurprisingly, they would not cooperate with my research.
- perhaps unsurprisingly
- then unsurprisingly
- given unsurprisingly
And when summer passed, unsurprisingly, so did my motivation.
- And when summer passed, unsurprisingly, so did my motivation.
- And their sound signature, the way they sound is unsurprisingly kind of flat.
- Well, unsurprisingly that has steamrolled ahead.
- It's been rising, unsurprisingly, since the recession, unchanged the past year or two.
- And when she was there she looked at the reviews unsurprisingly.
- Chromebooks were given out to all the students to reduce contact, and unsurprisingly, students started playing games during school.
Examples
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, they responded to a tabloid-style question with a tabloid-style response.
Academic text (2011) -
Some thought it was appropriate; unsurprisingly, others did not.
Academic text (2006) -
Because, unsurprisingly, it's you I want to talk to.
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And when summer passed, unsurprisingly, so did my motivation.
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The layout was, unsurprisingly, nothing like what it had once been.
Fiction book (1999) -
Unsurprisingly, many critics have attempted to address the question of why this series became so popular.
Academic text (2016) -
Unsurprisingly, the girls' hotel was nicer than our hotel.
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Unsurprisingly, Goddard denied all knowledge of the printing of "God Save the Rights of Man."
Academic text (2016) -
In looking up auction prices for wild fur, I learned—unsurprisingly—that his own were inflated far beyond market value.
Fiction book (2001) -
Unsurprisingly, the test results indicated that she was the top student in her class.
Synonyms
294
1.0
As expected, without surprise
31
3.4
In a way people expect
1
3.5
As most people thought would happen
In a way people thought would happen
In a normal way with no surprises
Antonyms
How Surprising
38
4.8
21
4.0
272
2.5
19
3.7
31
3.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
unsurprisingly = unsurprising (transparent) = un + surprise + ing + ly
Formed by adding the adverbial suffix '-ly' to 'unsurprising'; the derivation is a regular adverbial formation from a transparent adjective.
Etymology
The word unsurprisingly is made from un- ('not'), surprise (an old idea of 'taking someone off guard'), and -ly (which turns it into a word that tells how something was done). So unsurprisingly means 'not in a surprising way' or 'as you would expect'.