eery

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Adjective
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ee=ry

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

eerya. [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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