uncanny

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

uncanny
    adj 1: suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; "an
           eldritch screech"; "the three weird sisters";
           "stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures"-
           John Galsworthy; "an unearthly light"; "he could hear the
           unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"- Henry
           Kingsley [syn: {eldritch}, {weird}, {uncanny},
           {unearthly}]
    2: surpassing the ordinary or normal; "Beyond his preternatural
       affability there is some acid and some steel" - George Will;
       "his uncanny sense of direction" [syn: {preternatural},
       {uncanny}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Uncanny \Un*can"ny\, a.
   Not canny; unsafe; strange; weird; ghostly. --Sir W. Scott.
   -- {Un*can"ni*ness}, n. --G. Eliot.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

38 Moby Thesaurus words for "uncanny":
      awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing, bizarre, blue, cadaverous,
      corpselike, creepy, deadly, deathlike, deathly, deathly pale,
      eerie, eldritch, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, grisly, gruesome,
      haggard, livid, lurid, macabre, mortuary, mysterious, numinous,
      pale, spookish, spooky, superhuman, supernormal, unco, uncolike,
      unearthly, unnatural, wan, weird