Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - unusually

1. You use unusually to emphasize that someone or something has more of a particular quality than is usual. He was an unusually complex man. ...this year’s unusually harsh winter. ADV: ADV adj c darkgreen]emphasis 2. You can use unusually to suggest that something is not what normally happens. Unusually among British prime ministers, he was not a man of natural authority. ADV: ADV with cl, oft ADV for n