Eerie

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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              She whose elfin prancer springs


              By night to eery warblings.           --Tennyson.
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     2. Affected with fear; affrighted. --Burns.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  eerie
       adj 1: suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious; "an eerie
              feeling of deja vu" [syn: {eery}, {spooky}]
       2: so strange as to inspire a feeling of fear; "an
          uncomfortable and eerie stillness in the woods"; "an eerie
          midnight howl" [syn: {eery}]
       [also: {eeriest}, {eerier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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