Advertisement

Advertisement

View definitions for eerily

eerily

adverb as in strangely

Strongest matches

Strong matches

  • bloodcurdlingly
  • chillingly
  • fearfully
  • forebodingly
  • formidably
  • grimly
  • hauntingly
  • ominously
  • unnervingly

Weak matches

Discover More

Example Sentences

Examples have not been reviewed.

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.

It’s about the way spaces designed for profit strip away context, scale and care, leaving behind something frictionless and eerily familiar.

From Salon

"It's eerily weird," she exclaimed, while packing her truck to spend a night with her family and friends in the mountains.

From BBC

He stumbled on a case hundreds of miles north in Pennsylvania, the facts of which were eerily similar to D.C.’s.

From Salon

Much of the American political and social landscape of almost two centuries ago was eerily familiar, even if the labels were the reverse of what we perceive as customary today.

From Salon

Advertisement

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement