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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. [1913 Webster] She whose elfin prancer springs By night to eery warblings. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 2. Affected with fear; affrighted. --Burns. [1913 Webster] 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
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