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uncannily

/ʌŋˈkænɪli/

uncannily adverb: in an uncanny manner.

Adverb

uncannily (comparative more uncannily, superlative most uncannily)

  1. In an uncanny manner.
    • The traveler very easily failed to notice one among the normal bushes and undergrowth, and the moment he was in range the venomous sting would slash out. Even the regular inhabitant of such a district found it difficult to detect a motionless triffid cunningly lurking beside a jungle path. They...1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 43

uncannily meaning in Urdu

uncannily in Urdu

انہونے پن سے, اوہام پرستی سے

Forms of uncannily

comparativemore uncannily
superlativemost uncannily

Origin of uncannily

From uncanny + -ly.

Questions about uncannily

What does uncannily mean?
Uncannily means in an uncanny manner.
What is uncannily in Urdu?
Uncannily in Urdu is انہونے پن سے, اوہام پرستی سے. See Uncannily meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is uncannily?
Uncannily is an adverb.
How do you pronounce uncannily?
Uncannily is pronounced /ʌŋˈkænɪli/.

Words near uncannily in the dictionary

  1. uncankered
  2. uncanned
  3. uncannibalized
  4. uncannier
  5. uncanniest
  6. uncannily
  7. uncanniness
  8. uncanninesses
  9. uncanning
  10. uncanny
  11. uncanny valley

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Adapted from Wiktionary: uncannily (page history and authors); uncannily (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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