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refreshingly

refreshingly adverb: in a refreshing manner.

Adverb

refreshingly (comparative more refreshingly, superlative most refreshingly)

  1. In a refreshing manner.
    • a refreshingly original film in which the villain defeated the hero
    • The trade wind blows refreshingly cool across the Point, clearing it of mosquitoes and singing an eternal psalm in the fronds of the coconut palms.1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 57

refreshingly meaning in Urdu

refreshingly in Urdu

تازہ دلی سے

Examples of refreshingly in a sentence

  • Notwithstanding that episode, this film is refreshingly low on scatological gags and other gross-out humor, preferring all-purpose bad jokes to bathroom ones.1993 May 21, Janet Maslin, “From 'Rambo' to Rodham, Smirking All the Way”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 Sep...
  • In a refreshingly honest introduction, it recognised that the hardest part of any strategy is making it happen.2020 December 2, Industry Insider, “The costs of cutting carbon”, in Rail, page 76:

Forms of refreshingly

comparativemore refreshingly
superlativemost refreshingly

Origin of refreshingly

From refreshing + -ly.

Questions about refreshingly

What does refreshingly mean?
Refreshingly means in a refreshing manner.
What is refreshingly in Urdu?
Refreshingly in Urdu is تازہ دلی سے. See Refreshingly meaning in Urdu.
How do you use refreshingly in a sentence?
Notwithstanding that episode, this film is refreshingly low on scatological gags and other gross-out humor, preferring all-purpose bad jokes to bathroom ones.
What part of speech is refreshingly?
Refreshingly is an adverb.

Words near refreshingly in the dictionary

  1. refreshful
  2. refreshfully
  3. refreshin'
  4. refreshing
  5. refreshing someone's memory
  6. refreshingly
  7. refreshingness
  8. refreshings
  9. refreshment
  10. refreshment car
  11. refreshment cars

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Adapted from Wiktionary: refreshingly (page history and authors); refreshingly (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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