| Pronunciation: | | 'eeree
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| Matching Terms: | | eerily, eeriness, eerisome
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | eery, spooky, strange, unnatural, unusual |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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