refreshingly

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English

Etymology

From refreshing +‎ -ly.

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Adverb

refreshingly (comparative more refreshingly, superlative most refreshingly)

  1. In a refreshing manner.
    a refreshingly original film in which the villain defeated the hero
    • 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 57:
      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.
    • 2020 December 2, Industry Insider, “The costs of cutting carbon”, in Rail, page 76:
      In a refreshingly honest introduction, it recognised that the hardest part of any strategy is making it happen.