Eerie

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Inspiring inexplicable fear, dread, or uneasiness; strange and frightening.
  • adj. Suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious. See Synonyms at weird.
  • adj. Scots Frightened or intimidated by superstition.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. strange, weird, fear-inspiring.
  • adj. fearful, timid.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Serving to inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts; wild; weird.
  • adj. Affected with fear; affrighted.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • See eery.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious
  • adj. inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening
    • Equivalent
    supernatural    strange    unusual    eery   
    Variant
    eerier    eeriest   
    Form
    eeriness    eerisome    eerily   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    wild    weird    affrighted    fearful    creepy    strange    spooky   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Alfieri    Cleary    Erie    Kiri    Leary    beery    bleary    cheery    deary    dreary   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    weird    ghostly    unearthly    uncanny    ominous    frighten    mournful    startle    unnatural    dreamy   
     
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