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uncommonly

/ˌʌnˈkɑmənli/
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Use the word uncommonly to mean "extremely" or "exceptionally" — as in the uncommonly good chocolate chip cookies your dad baked, or the uncommonly speedy way your family ate them.

Rather than modifying a verb, uncommonly is one of those adverbs that almost always modifies an adjective. Use it whenever you want to emphasize how rare and exceptional something is, whether it's the uncommonly difficult crossword puzzle you solved or your uncommonly tidy bedroom. This word comes from uncommon, "not common, rare." Synonyms include words like "remarkably" and "unusually."

Definitions of uncommonly
  1. adverb
    exceptionally
    “a common remedy is uncommonly difficult to find”
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