eerie
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
eerie
adj 1: suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious; "an eerie
feeling of deja vu"
2: inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening; "an
uncomfortable and eerie stillness in the woods"; "an eerie
midnight howl" [syn: {eerie}, {eery}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Eerie \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.
[1913 Webster]
She whose elfin prancer springs
By night to eery warblings. --Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]
2. Affected with fear; affrighted. --Burns.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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