eerily

adverb

ee·​ri·​ly ˈir-ə-lē How to pronounce eerily (audio)
: in a strange and eerie manner : mysteriously, weirdly
The museum had closed for the night and it was eerily still.Brian Selznick
In a case eerily similar to the Vicki Hoskinson murder, an eleven-year-old girl in Louisiana disappeared while riding her bicycle.David Fisher

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When the body of a young man is found eerily staged in the idyllic Scottish wilderness, detective Monica Kennedy fears this is just the beginning of a terrifying campaign that will strike the heart of a rural community. Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 1 July 2025 Now that technology has created such eerily realistic suckers, watch out for entire tentacles full of them. ArsTechnica, 28 June 2025 The sound evokes a time when escapism ruled the charts, and its return feels eerily timely to some. Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 June 2025 It was never built to handle models that devour gigabytes of creative work, crunch it into statistical patterns, and use that substrate to generate eerily familiar prose. Aron Solomon june 27, Literary Hub, 27 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for eerily

Word History

First Known Use

1847, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of eerily was in 1847

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“Eerily.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eerily. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.

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