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scarily

scarily adverb: in a scary manner.

Adverb

scarily (comparative more scarily, superlative most scarily)

  1. In a scary manner.
    • He adores his bedtime baseball stories, even at his ripe old age. “It's called 'The Curse.' Wooooooooo!” Sol sings scarily in a trilly, ghostlike, gradually descending soprano.2009, Bob Mitchell, Once Upon a Fastball
    • Her loneliness is made much worse by post-natal depression and delusions – which are represented with scarily plausible simplicity.2021 July 11, Peter Bradshaw, “Three Floors review – Nanni Moretti melodrama lacks profundity”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Forms of scarily

comparativemore scarily
superlativemost scarily

Origin of scarily

From scary + -ly.

Questions about scarily

What does scarily mean?
Scarily means in a scary manner.
What part of speech is scarily?
Scarily is an adverb.

Words near scarily in the dictionary

  1. scarifiers
  2. scarifies
  3. scarify
  4. scarifying
  5. scarifyingly
  6. scarily
  7. scarin'
  8. scarine
  9. scarines
  10. scariness
  11. scaring

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