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eldritch

Adjective

el=dritch

WORDNET DICTIONARY

eldritch(s = adj.all) uncanny, unearthly, weird - suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; "an eldritch screech"; "the three weird sisters"; "stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures"; "an unearthly light"; "he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"

eldritch, a.

Hideous; ghastly; as, an eldritch shriek or laugh. [1913 Webster]

eldritch, adj. Sc.
1 weird.
2 hideous.

Etymology

16th c.: perh. f. OE elfrice (unrecorded) 'fairy realm'

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