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remarkably

UK/ɹɪˈmɑːkəbli/US/ɹɪˈmɑɹkəbli/
adverbB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #5,973 of 15,258neutral

Remarkably means to a degree worth noticing and commenting on. Remarkably similar, remarkably calm, remarkably, he survived.

It is doing what it says: the writer is remarking on the thing, which is why it works before an adjective and at the start of a sentence alike. It is stronger than very and weaker than astonishingly, and it keeps a note of measured surprise.

Definitions of remarkably

  1. 1adverbremarkablyTo a degree worth noticing and commenting on.B2

    “The old car was in remarkably good condition for its age.”

remarkably is a degree.

Where it comes from

  1. French

    remarquable

  2. English

    remarkable

  3. English, today

    remarkably

From remarkable + -ly. remarkable comes from remark + able, from French remarquable.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

remarkably in the wild

  • The water and sand among the city beaches, despite their popularity, are remarkably clean.

    List of beaches in Sydney

  • The town is best known for its remarkably well-preserved castle, the Castillo de la Vela.

    Maqueda

  • Many members of this tribe are remarkably butterfly like.

    Ourapterygini

  • Excluding these and Latin words, Icelandic has been altered remarkably little since settlement.

    Languages of Iceland

  • NGC 1189 has extended clumpy star formation throughout its spiral arms with remarkably little associated stellar light, which is striking in the color images.

    NGC 1189

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the remarquable family

remarkableremarkably

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