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Antonyms for eerily

Grammar : Adv
Spell : eer-ee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɪər i

Definition of eerily

Origin :
  • c.1300, "fearful, timid," north England and Scottish variant of Old English earg "cowardly, fearful," from Proto-Germanic *argaz (cf. Old Frisian erg "evil, bad," Middle Dutch arch "bad," Dutch arg, Old High German arg "cowardly, worthless," German arg "bad, wicked," Old Norse argr "unmanly, voluptuous," Swedish arg "malicious").
  • Sense of "causing fear because of strangeness" is first attested 1792. Related: Eerily. Finnish arka "cowardly" is a Germanic loan-word.
  • adv strangely
Example sentences :
  • My humor enters into it, in no obvious way but eerily like a gay ghost.
  • Extract from : « I, Mary MacLane » by Mary MacLane
  • Earthquakes are eerily quiet -- at first, anyway -- but this wasn't quiet.
  • Extract from : « Little Brother » by Cory Doctorow
  • Really, this was all so eerily interesting that she almost forgot the pain of her bandaged ankle.
  • Extract from : « The Mystery of Jockey Hollow » by Cleo Garis
  • The ship was eerily silent, dropping with a rising scream as the atmosphere touched the hull.
  • Extract from : « A World is Born » by Leigh Douglass Brackett
  • They sounded like small working sounds, blending in eerily mysterious fashion with a chorus of small voices.
  • Extract from : « Houlihan's Equation » by Walt Sheldon
  • The owl came so silently and so eerily that, somehow, it seemed to have materialized out of thin air.
  • Extract from : « Swamp Cat » by James Arthur Kjelgaard
  • Thick bush, dank and heavy from recent rains, was on either side, fugitive streaks of pale light from above painting it eerily.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories, August, 1931 » by Various
  • Yesterday it was summer, but the strange sudden "stop" has come, eerily, as it always seems to come.
  • Extract from : « Browning's Heroines » by Ethel Colburn Mayne
  • The half-moon curtains of rock that so eerily resembled eyelids, blinked heavily.
  • Extract from : « The Planetoid of Peril » by Paul Ernst
  • Finally, after passing over a chain of darkened mountains, eerily lighted at the peaks by the Sun, there came a yell.
  • Extract from : « The Secret of the Ninth Planet » by Donald Allen Wollheim

Synonyms for eerily

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