surprisingly
adverb/səˈpraɪzɪŋli/
/sərˈpraɪzɪŋli/
- in a way that causes surprise
- She looked surprisingly well.
- Surprisingly, he agreed straight away.
- Not surprisingly on such a hot day, the beach was crowded.
- She knew surprisingly little about her sister’s life.
Language Bank surprisingsurprisingHighlighting interesting data- What is surprising about these results is that men are more likely to be left-handed than women.
- Surprisingly, men are more likely to be left-handed than women.
- Interestingly, even when both parents are left-handed, there is still only a 26 per cent chance of their children being left-handed.
- One of the most interesting findings is that only 2 per cent of the left-handers surveyed have two left-handed parents.
- It is interesting to note that people are more likely to be left-handed if their mother is left-handed than if their father is.
- The most striking feature of these results is that left-handed mothers are more likely to have left-handed children.
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