About The Word Eerie
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Eerie
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What's The Definition Of Eerie?
[adj] so strange as to inspire a feeling of fear; "an uncomfortable and eerie stillness in the woods"; "an eerie midnight howl"
[adj] suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious; "an eerie feeling of deja vu" Synonyms | Synonyms for Eerie: eery | spooky | strange | unnatural | unusual Related Terms | Find terms related to Eerie: arcane | awe-inspiring | awesome | awful | awing | bizarre | blue | cadaverous | corpselike | crawly | creepy | deadly | deathlike | deathly | deathly pale | dreadful | eldritch | esoteric | extramundane | extraterrestrial | fantastic | fey | frightening | ghastly | ghostlike | ghostly | grisly | grotesque | gruesome | haggard | hypernormal | hyperphysical | livid | lurid | macabre | mortuary | mysterious | numinous | occult | otherworldly | pale | preterhuman | preternatural | preternormal | pretersensual | psychic | scary | spectral | spiritual | spookish | spooky | strange | superhuman | supernatural | supernormal | superphysical | supersensible | supersensual | supramundane | supranatural | transcendental | transmundane | uncanny | unco | uncolike | unearthly | unhuman | unworldly | wan | weird See Also | Eerie In Webster's Dictionary \Ee"rie\, Eery \Ee"ry\, a. [Scotch, fr. AS. earh timid.]
1. Serving to inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts;
wild; weird; as, eerie stories.
She whose elfin prancer springs By night to eery
warblings. --Tennyson.
2. Affected with fear; affrighted. --Burns.
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