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spooky
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective spooky has 1 sense
- spooky(s = adj.all) flighty, nervous, skittish - unpredictably excitable (especially of horses); Array
OXFORD DICTIONARY
spooky, adj. (spookier, spookiest)
1 colloq. ghostly, eerie.
2 US sl. nervous; easily frightened.
3 US sl. of spies or espionage.
1 colloq. ghostly, eerie.
2 US sl. nervous; easily frightened.
3 US sl. of spies or espionage.
Derivative
spookily adv. spookiness n.
THESAURUS
spooky
creepy, eerie, eldritch, fidgety, ghost-haunted, ghost-ridden, goosey, haunted, high-strung, jittery, jumpy, macabre, nervy, obsessed, ominous, possessed, specter-haunted, spirit-haunted, spooked, spookish, twittery, uncanny, unco, uncolike, unearthly, unrestful, weird
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