strangely

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   In a strange or coincidental manner.

   Though I'd never gone to Boston before, everything looked strangely familiar.

2. 2
   adv

   Surprisingly, wonderfully.

   […]all thy vexations / Were but my trials of thy love, and thou / Hast strangely stood the test[…]

3. 3
   adv

   in a strange manner

Etymology

From Middle English straungely (“strangely, aloofly, intricately”); equivalent to strange + -ly.