The unusually dry season caused the river's water level to drop, exposing ancient rock carvings along its bed.
异常干燥的季节导致河流水位下降，露出了河床上古老的岩刻。
Elephants possess an unusually large hippocampus relative to body size, a brain region associated with memory formation.
From a Central Ideas and Details question · Information and Ideas
Certain species of parrot possess an unusually dense concentration of neurons in a brain region associated with problem-solving, despite having a brain far smaller in overall size than that of many mammals.
From a Central Ideas and Details question · Information and Ideas
- Karst regions often have unusually vulnerable groundwater systems, since pollutants can travel quickly through the dissolved channels with little natural filtering.
From a Rhetorical Synthesis question · Expression of Ideas
Which choice best defines “unusually”?
D — In a way that is not common. “unusually” means in a way that is not common.
Which word means “in a way that is not common”?
D — unusually. “unusually” means in a way that is not common.
unusually — in a way that is not common. In Chinese: 异常地.
unusually is pronounced /ʌnˈjuːʒuəli/.
The unusually dry season caused the river's water level to drop, exposing ancient rock carvings along its bed. (异常干燥的季节导致河流水位下降，露出了河床上古老的岩刻。)
remarkably, exceptionally, abnormally — all close in meaning to unusually (in a way that is not common).
typically, normally — each the opposite of unusually (in a way that is not common).
Yes. unusually is on the SAT Prep Basic list — the everyday academic words the SAT assumes you already have. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.