Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an eery, strange, or unearthly manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a strange, unearthly way.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
eerie manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in an unnatural eery manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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The man was staring down at him, his expression eerily deadpan.
The Honor Farm John Westermann 1996
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Owens sent out an invading army of extraterrestrial princesses in eerily long, sweeping skirts and clean, sleeveless leather vests with trailing trains.
Balmain, Zac Posen, Rick Owens & Manish Arora Out Of This World In Paris (PHOTOS, POLL) Hilary Moss 2010
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Owens sent out an invading army of extraterrestrial princesses in eerily long, sweeping skirts and clean, sleeveless leather vests with trailing trains.
Balmain, Zac Posen, Rick Owens & Manish Arora Out Of This World In Paris (PHOTOS, POLL) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Silently prowling the muddy streets, she watches eerily from the shadows, waiting for ... something.
Free Online Book: The Keeper by Sarah Langan (Limited Time) 2009
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As a syndicated cartoonist, I've seen my published ideas later appear in eerily similar reiterations in other comics and spoken near-verbatim by nationally recognized humorists (to the point where scores of readers and viewers alerted me, offended and outraged on my behalf).
The Riff: From 'SOUTH PARK' to 'POOCH CAFE': When a sense of plagiarism plagues comedy Michael Cavna 2010
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Owens sent out an invading army of extraterrestrial princesses in eerily long, sweeping skirts and clean, sleeveless leather vests with trailing trains.
Balmain, Zac Posen, Rick Owens & Manish Arora Out Of This World In Paris (PHOTOS, POLL) Hilary Moss 2010
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I'll predict that they'll remain eerily quiet about this whole thing.
The lifeblood of democracy Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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Almost two years later, I get a phone call eerily similar to an earlier letter: Hi, this is Dr. Oddi's office.
Archive 2009-06-01 1 Dinosaur 2009
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Almost two years later, I get a phone call eerily similar to an earlier letter: Hi, this is Dr. Oddi's office.
It Happened Again! 1 Dinosaur 2009
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I'll predict that they'll remain eerily quiet about this whole thing.
Archive 2007-05-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007
shanvrolijk commented on the word eerily
"We usher in the AI future on the wings of angels, because the heavy lifting of the imagination isn’t possible without their pinion feathers – whether we think of them as artificial or divine."
Source: The most avid believers in artificial intelligence are aggressively secular – yet their language is eerily religious. Why?
January 22, 2018