eerily

American  

[eer-i-lee] / ˈɪər ɪ li /

adverb

1. in a spooky or uncanny way that makes one uneasy; weirdly.

   The town empties out eerily at this time of day, giving it a ghostly appearance that visitors find disconcerting.

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Etymology

Origin of eerily

eeri(e) + -ly

Example Sentences

Earlier this month, the CEO of one of the hottest robot startups, Figure AI, posted a video of the company’s latest humanoid bot jogging in a manner eerily similar to a human.

From The Wall Street Journal

Streets ordinarily packed with tourists lay eerily quiet.

From The Wall Street Journal

Maybe it was the setting, in a mostly empty and eerily quiet Galen Center.

From Los Angeles Times

Think of an Egyptian Lover set as a piece of performance art that takes you somewhere both far away and eerily familiar — yesterday, tomorrow, Egypt, South-Central.

From Los Angeles Times

If anything, such a war has been eerily normalized in our collective consciousness and we’ve become remarkably numb to and fatalistic about it.

From Salon

Related Words

• bizarrely
• weirdly