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Definition: Eerily |
EerilyAdverb1. In an unnatural eery manner; "it was eerily quiet in the chapel". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "eerily" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1913. (references) |
Synonym: EerilySynonym: spookily (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Eerily |
| English words defined with "eerily": spookily. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It's eerily beautiful. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
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| "Eerily" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Eerily" is used about 87 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 87 | 35,390 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
eerily | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "eerily"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 令人毛骨悚然地. (various references) | |
German | unheimliche (sinisterly, uncannily, weirdness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hátborzongatóan (creepily, gruesomely, uncannily, weirdly). (various references) | |
Korean | 섬뜩하게. (various references) | |
Manx | dy neuheiltagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eerilyay.(various references) | |
Thai | น่าขนลุก (eery). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "eerily": cheerily, leerily. (additional references) | |
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"Eerily" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aerily, eariy, Eberulf, eeri, eily, Eirlys, eraly, erile, erly, Ersly, Herlihy, nervily. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "eerily" (pronounced i"rulē) |
| 4 | -r u l ē | angrily, arbitrarily, centrally, cerebrally, customarily, extraordinarily, florally, hungrily, merrily, militarily, momentarily, morally, necessarily, orally, orchestrally, ordinarily, preliminarily, primarily, satisfactorily, secondarily, severally, statutorily, summarily, temporarily, unnecessarily, voluntarily, warily, wearily. |
| 3 | -u l ē | abnormally, abysmally, accidentally, actually, additionally, agriculturally, anecdotally, anencephaly, annually, anomaly, architecturally, artfully, artificially, beneficially, bilaterally, blissfully, bodily, botanically, broccoli, brutally, busily, carefully, casually, cheerfully, chronically, Cicely, circumstantially, civilly, clinically, clumsily, coincidentally, comically, commercially, conceptually, conditionally, confidentially, congressionally, conspiratorially, constitutionally, continentally, continually, contractually, contradictorily, conventionally, cordially, crazily, criminally, critically, culturally, cynically, delightfully, developmentally, diagonally, diametrically, digitally, dismally, diurnally, dorsally, dreadfully, dutifully, easily, editorially, educationally, electrically, electronically, emotionally, empirically, environmentally, equally, essentially, eternally, ethically, eventually, exceptionally, experimentally, exponentially, externally, facsimile, factually, faithfully, family, fanatically, fatally, federally, finally, financially, fiscally, fitfully, forcefully, formally, fractionally, frantically, frightfully, frugally, functionally, fundamentally, gainfully, generally, generationally, geographically, giggly, gleefully, globally, gloomily, governmentally, gracefully, gradually, gratefully, gravelly, gravitationally, greedily, habitually, handily, happily, hastily, haughtily, heartily, heavily, helpfully, hermetically, historically, homily, hopefully, horizontally, icily, illegally, impartially, incidentally, incrementally, individually, industrially, informally, initially, institutionally, intellectually, intentionally, internally, internationally, intrinsically, involuntarily, irrationally, jauntily, journalistically, joyfully, judicially, lawfully, lazily, legally, liberally, literally, locally, loyally, luckily, magically, magnetically, majestically, manfully, manually, marginally, masterfully, materially, mathematically, meaningfully, medicinally, mentally, mercifully, methodically, metrically, mightily, mineralogically, minimally, monetarily, monopoly, monumentally, mortally, multifamily, multilaterally, municipally, mutually, nasally, nationally, nattily, naturally, noisily, nominally, normally, novelly, nutritionally, occasionally, officially, oligopoly, operationally, optimistically, originally, painfully, parenthetically, partially, pathetically, peacefully, perennially, periodically, peripherally, perpetually, personally, phenomenally, philosophically, physically, pitifully, playfully, politically, potentially, pragmatically, preferentially, presidentially, procedurally, professionally, proportionally, provincially, provisionally, purposefully, quintessentially, racially, radially, rationally, readily, regally, regionally, regretfully, respectfully, rightfully, ritualistically, romantically, royally, ruefully, sardonically, scantily, scientifically, seasonally, semiannually, sequentially, serenely, sexually, skeptically, skillfully, sleepily, sloppily, socially, specially, speedily, spiritually, statistically, steadily, steamily, structurally, subfamily, subliminally, substantially, subtly, successfully, supremely, surgically, symbolically, sympathetically, tactfully, tactically, tangentially, tastefully, tearfully, technically, technologically, temperamentally, temporally, terminally, territorially, testily, thankfully, theatrically, theoretically, therapeutically, thoughtfully, totally, traditionally, Tripoli, truthfully, uncannily, unconditionally, unconstitutionally, uncritically, uneasily, unequivocally, unhappily, unilaterally, unintentionally, universally, unlawfully, unnaturally, unofficially, unsuccessfully, unusually, usefully, usually, virtually, viscerally, visually, vitally, vocally, wiggly, wilfully, willfully, wishfully, wistfully, wittily, wobbly, woefully, wonderfully, wrongfully. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-l-r-y" | |
-1 letter: eyrie, leery, riley. | |
-2 letters: eely, eery, eyer, eyre, leer, lier, lire, lyre, reel, rely, riel, rile. | |
-3 letters: eel, ere, eye, ire, lee, lei, ley, lie, lye, ree, rei, rye. | |
-4 letters: el, er, li, re, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-l-r-y" | |
+1 letter: leerily, reedily, yielder. | |
+2 letters: beryline, breezily, celerity, cheerily, creepily, delivery, entirely, eyeliner, fiercely, greedily, legerity, lientery, yearlies, yielders. | |
+3 letters: berrylike, celebrity, cycleries, diversely, electrify, eruditely, eyeliners, fertilely, glyceride, glycerine, inversely, jeeringly, leeringly, leisurely, liverymen, lysimeter, minelayer, pericycle, peristyle, precisely, puerilely, reliquefy, restively, retiredly, seriately, serriedly, servilely, sincerely, sterilely, triweekly, veeringly. | |
+4 letters: aversively, cherrylike, coercively, creatively, crescively, cylindered, decrepitly, derisively, discreetly, discretely, erectility, eruptively, erysipelas, esuriently, euryhaline, exteriorly, feverishly, fleeringly, freezingly, frenziedly, galleryite, generality, glycerides, glycerines, inexpertly, inherently, insecurely, interlayer, lawyerlike, literately, lysimeters, minelayers, pericycles, peristyles, perplexity, polymerise, polymerize, reactively, redelivery, relatively, relievedly, remedially, replevying, resignedly, resiliency, reticently, reversibly, semiyearly, sperrylite, tirelessly, tiresomely. | |
+5 letters: aggrievedly, assertively, caressively, cycloserine, daredevilry, deliveryman, deliverymen, differently, diglyceride, dingleberry, dispersedly, divergently, egregiously, electricity, endearingly, ethereality, excursively, exemplarily, exemplarity, externality, galleryites, generically, glycerinate, heretically, heterolysis, heterolytic, hyperbolize, hyperlinked, hypersaline, imperfectly, imprecisely, insincerely, interlayers, interplayed, intervalley, irrelevancy, iteratively, legendarily, mercenarily, mercilessly, myoelectric, necessarily, nondelivery, operatively, perceivably, perceptibly, perennially, pertinently, pervasively, polymerised, polymerises, polymerized, polymerizes, predelivery, preliterary, prelusively, presciently, pricelessly, proselytise, proselytize, receptively, recessively, reclusively, reconditely, recursively, redeploying, redisplayed, reductively, reemploying, reflexively, reflexivity, rejectingly, repulsively, resiliently, resistively, retentively, revealingly, secretively, serviceably, silverberry, sovereignly, sperrylites, unweariedly, versatilely, viceregally, wearilessly, wearisomely. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 65 72 69 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). . .-. .. .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01100101 01110010 01101001 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E e r i l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0065 0072 0069 006C 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)397184757891 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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