EERILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eerily mean? 

• EERILY (adverb)
  The adverb EERILY has 1 sense:

1. in an unnatural eery manner

  Familiarity information: EERILY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EERILY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an unnatural eery manner

Synonyms:

eerily; spookily

Context example:

it was eerily quiet in the chapel

 Context examples 

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.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Saturn's moon Titan may be nearly a billion miles away from Earth, but a recently published paper based on data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveals a new way this distant world and our own are eerily similar.

(Cassini Finds Saturn Moon Has 'Sea Level' Like Earth, NASA)