Eerie

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  • adjective. Inspiring inexplicable fear, dread, or uneasiness; strange and frightening. synonym: weird.
  • adjective. Frightened or intimidated by superstition.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • See eery.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Serving to inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts; wild; weird.
  • adjective. Affected with fear; affrighted.
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  • adjective. strange, weird, fear-inspiring.
  • adjective. fearful, timid.
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  • adjective. suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious
  • adjective. inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening
    • Word Usage
    "When the final buzzer sounded, the Woodinville junior was overcome with what she called an "eerie" feeling."
    Equivalent
    eery  strange  supernatural  unusual  
    Form
    eerily  eeriness  eerisome  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Alfieri  Cleary  Erie  Kiri  Leary  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    dismal  dreamy  frighten  ghostly  mournful  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    affrighted  arcane  awe-inspiring  awesome  awful  
    variant
    eerier  eeriest  
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