eerily

[eer-i-lee]

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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of eerily¹

eeri(e) + -ly

Example Sentences

There are a pleasantly surprising number of directorial flourishes in “Maigret”—a thoroughly modern home cast as eerily gothic, for instance; conversational pauses that bend the time limits of conventional TV.

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When a young woman who calls herself Beloved arrives, the haunting becomes eerily tangible.

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But the stellar run for Nasdaq Composite and tech in general looks eerily familiar to those who lived through the dot-com era’s boom and bust.

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Every shot is a stunner, from stark images of eerily spinning footballs to goalposts that loom like devil’s horns.

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But on this hot August afternoon, as a car pulled up outside the event hall to deposit José’s parents and the other elderly travelers, the streets were eerily quiet.

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