Definition of uncannily in English:
uncannily
adverbʌnˈkanɪliˌənˈkænəli
In a strange or mysterious way, especially one that is unsettling.
Bobby looks uncannily like his father
Eliot's illness uncannily mirrored his wife's
Example sentencesExamples
- Despite these differences, their exhibitions are uncannily complementary.
- The passage from St. Augustine uncannily prefigures the couplet of Hafiz which I quoted above.
- Eliot's illness uncannily mirrored his wife's.
- The idea is to reveal how animals can seem uncannily human.
- The artists lit them against black backdrops to create uncannily accurate portraits.
Definition of uncannily in US English:
uncannily
adverbˌənˈkanəlēˌənˈkænəli
In a strange or mysterious way, especially one that is unsettling.
Bobby looks uncannily like his father
Eliot's illness uncannily mirrored his wife's
Example sentencesExamples
- Eliot's illness uncannily mirrored his wife's.
- The passage from St. Augustine uncannily prefigures the couplet of Hafiz which I quoted above.
- The artists lit them against black backdrops to create uncannily accurate portraits.
- The idea is to reveal how animals can seem uncannily human.
- Despite these differences, their exhibitions are uncannily complementary.