Eery

2 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]:

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