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eerie
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective eerie has 2 senses
- eerie(s = adj.all) Array - suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious; "an eerie feeling of deja vu"
- eerie(s = adj.all) eery - inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening; "an uncomfortable and eerie stillness in the woods"; "an eerie midnight howl"
CIDE DICTIONARY
eerie, a. [Scotch, fr. AS. earh timid.].
- Serving to inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts; wild; weird; as, eerie stories. [1913 Webster]"She whose elfin prancer springs
By night to eery warblings." [1913 Webster] - Affected with fear; affrighted. Burns. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
eerie, adj. (eerier, eeriest) gloomy and strange; weird, frightening (an eerie silence).
Derivative
eerily adv. eeriness n.
Etymology
orig. N.Engl. and Sc. eri, of obscure orig.: cf. OE earg cowardly
THESAURUS
eerie
arcane, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing, bizarre, blue, cadaverous, corpselike, crawly, creepy, deadly, deathlike, deathly, deathly pale, dreadful, eldritch, esoteric, extramundane, extraterrestrial, fantastic, fey, frightening, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, grisly, grotesque, gruesome, haggard, hypernormal, hyperphysical, livid, lurid, macabre, mortuary, mysterious, numinous, occult, otherworldly, pale, preterhuman, preternatural, preternormal, pretersensual, psychic, scary, spectral, spiritual, spookish, spooky, strange, superhuman, supernatural, supernormal, superphysical, supersensible, supersensual, supramundane, supranatural, transcendental, transmundane, uncanny, unco, uncolike, unearthly, unhuman, unworldly, wan, weird
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