Usually means: In a frightening or alarming manner.
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  1. scarily: Merriam-Webster
  2. scarily: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scarily: Collins English Dictionary
  4. scarily: Vocabulary.com
  5. Scarily, scarily: Wordnik
  6. scarily: Wiktionary
  7. scarily: Dictionary.com
  8. scarily: Rhymezone
  9. scarily: FreeDictionary.org
  10. scarily: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. scarily: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scarily: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See scary as well.)

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▸ adverb:  In a scary manner.

Similar:
frighteningly, terrifyingly, scaringly, alarmingly, horrifyingly, spookily, spookishly, eerily, freakily, creepily, more...

Opposite:
comfortingly, reassuringly, calmly

Types:
eerie, creepy, spooky, macabre, morbid, more...



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Similar:
frighteningly, terrifyingly, scaringly, alarmingly, horrifyingly, spookily, spookishly, eerily, freakily, creepily, more...

Opposite:
comfortingly, reassuringly, calmly

Types:
eerie, creepy, spooky, macabre, morbid, more...



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