Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In an eery, strange, or unearthly manner.
Wiktionary
- adv. In an eerie manner.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In a strange, unearthly way.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. in an unnatural eery manner
Etymologies
- From eerie. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The man was staring down at him, his expression eerily deadpan.”
“Owens sent out an invading army of extraterrestrial princesses in eerily long, sweeping skirts and clean, sleeveless leather vests with trailing trains.”
“Silently prowling the muddy streets, she watches eerily from the shadows, waiting for ... something.”
“As a syndicated cartoonist, I've seen my published ideas later appear in eerily similar reiterations in other comics and spoken near-verbatim by nationally recognized humorists (to the point where scores of readers and viewers alerted me, offended and outraged on my behalf).”
“I'll predict that they'll remain eerily quiet about this whole thing.”
“Almost two years later, I get a phone call eerily similar to an earlier letter: Hi, this is Dr. Oddi's office.”
“The creatures are depicted masterfully with CGI: some of them appear with horrible realism, while others remain eerily obscured within the mist.”
“Pictures that have them in eerily-similar stances?”
“It appears that - at about 75 mph - I make an expression eerily similar to bitter beer face in an effort to keep my [already strapped] goggles on my face.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘eerily’.
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macabre
words associated with the macabre & horror.
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Sardanapalian
sardanapalian, villain, breathe, legion, melt, death, juliet, dying, endless, breathtaking, devil, vis-à-vis and 13 more...
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ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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my words
concomitant, heresy, jhonny-come-latelies, lore, eerily, visage, ornate, labyrinth, edifice, cavernous, staccato, obelisk and 18 more...
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It's me against the word
cacophony, blatant, pizzazz, sheepishly, slouch, mangled, eerily, esteem, pummel, façade, rendezvous, elusive and 20 more...
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adverbs
eerily, irrevocably, astoundingly, whence, utterly, indubitably
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