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eery
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective eery has 1 sense
- eery(s = adj.all) eerie - inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening; "an uncomfortable and eerie stillness in the woods"; "an eerie midnight howl" Derived form noun eeriness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
eery, 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]
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