un·can·ny

(ŭn-kăn′ē)

adj. un·can·ni·er, un·can·ni·est

Mysterious or impossible to explain, especially when causing uneasiness or astonishment. See Synonyms at weird.

[un- + canny, fortunate, safe (obsolete).]

un·can′ni·ly adv.

un·can′ni·ness n.

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Adv.

uncannily - in an uncanny manner; "uncannily human robots"

Translations

بصورَةٍ غَريبَه

záhadně

forbløffende

unheimlich

αλλόκοτα

mystérieusement

óhugnanlega

záhadne

acayip şekilde

离奇地

uncannily

[ʌnˈkænɪlɪ] ADV → misteriosamente
it is uncannily like the other one → tiene un asombroso parecido con el otro, se parece extraordinariamente al otro

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

uncannily

[ˌʌnˈkænɪli] adv

[similar, quiet, accurate] → étrangement

[resemble, coincide, fit] → d'une manière troublante

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

uncannily

adv → unheimlich; his guesses are uncannily accurate → es ist unheimlich or nicht ganz geheuer, wie genau er alles errät; to look uncannily like somebody/something → jdm/einer Sache auf unheimliche Weise ähnlich sehen

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

uncannily

[ʌnˈkænɪlɪ] adv → straordinariamente, incredibilmente

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

uncanny

(anˈkӕni) adjective

strange or mysterious. She looks so like her sister that it's quite uncanny.

unˈcannily adverb

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References in classic literature

Opening his blinded eyes, Levin gazed through the thick veil of rain that separated him now from the copse, and to his horror the first thing he saw was the green crest of the familiar oak-tree in the middle of the copse uncannily changing its position.

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She was nearly as strong as I, and uncannily clever at all boys' sports.

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The blacks who had witnessed his advent looked on in amazement as they saw the naked giant leap easily into the branches of the tree from whence he had dropped so uncannily upon the scene, and vanish as he had come, bearing away their prisoner with him.

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The sound of his voice echoed uncannily through the homelike hush, and he repeated: "There is something I've got to tell you .

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Some of them resembled the corpse we had found upon the narrow beach against Caprona's sea-wall, while others were of a still lower type, more nearly resembling the apes, and yet others were uncannily manlike, standing there erect, being less hairy and possessing better shaped heads.

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The other eye, scarcely larger than a squirrel's and as uncannily bright, twisted up obliquely into the hairy scar of a bone-crushed eyebrow.

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