Meaning & use
Scarily
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In a manner that causes fear; to a frightening degree.
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The house was scarily quiet after everyone else had left.
He looked scarily similar to the man in the old photograph.
A note on using this word
Often used informally as an intensifier, as in "scarily accurate," to emphasize how striking or unsettling something is.
Words with a similar meaning
frighteninglyalarmingly
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