surprisingly
adv. sent.adv. used to say that something is unexpected or different from what you thought. You use it to show that a fact is a bit of a shock.
adv. in a manner that causes astonishment or wonder because it is unexpected. Often functions as a disjunct to express the speaker's attitude toward the following statement.
The exam was surprisingly easy.
Surprisingly, the small restaurant was completely full on a Tuesday night.
The results of the study were surprisingly consistent across different age groups, despite the researchers' initial hypothesis that older participants would respond more conservatively.
From surprising + -ly.
When modifying an entire sentence, it usually appears at the beginning followed by a comma; otherwise, it sits immediately before the adjective or adverb it modifies.
It was a surprisingly movie.It was a surprisingly good movie.As an adverb, it must modify an adjective, verb, or another adverb, rather than a noun directly.