eerily
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 6
/ˈɪəɹɪli/
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/ˈɪəɹɪli/ · /ˈɪɹ.ɪ.li/(US)
Definition of eerily
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adv
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In an eerie manner.
“And it was the voice of a human being—a known, loved, well-remembered voice—that of Edward Fairfax Rochester; and it spoke in pain and woe—wildly, eerily, urgently.”
“Within a short time, the area became overcrowded with visiting kinksters and the original dungeons were torn down, replaced by resplendent palaces of kinkiness that soared into the sky. I can’t help but notice at this point that the story begins to sound eerily like the development of Las Vegas. My brother Merle used to love going out there years ago, to frequent the smaller and older casinos. He became furious when developers tore them down to build newer and bigger ones.”
“A woman whose fiancé died on Sept. 11, Maria Barreto-Mojica, said she noticed that something about yesterday had seemed eerily familiar. “I looked at the sky this morning. It was so blue, just the same as it was that morning,” said Ms. Barreto-Mojica, 48, who was to marry fire lieutenant Dennis Mojica.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From eerie + -ly. Compare Old English earglīċe, earhlīċe (“in a cowardly manner, timidly, fearfully”).
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