in an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise
"amazingly, he finished medical school in three years"
In a way that causes surprise because it is unexpected, or unusual.
"The team won the championship surprisingly after having lost every game in the previous season."
In plain English: Surprisingly means something happened that you did not expect at all.
"The traffic was surprisingly light for such a busy Tuesday evening."
Usage: Use surprisingly to modify adjectives and verbs when describing an outcome that defies expectation based on prior evidence. Avoid confusing this with the noun form of surprise; instead, place it directly before the word you are modifying for clarity.
The word surprisingly is formed by adding the suffix -ly to the adjective surprising. It entered English as a straightforward grammatical construction to describe actions that are done in a surprising manner.