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View synonyms for eerie

eerie

or ee·ry

[ eer-ee ]

adjective

, ee·ri·er, ee·ri·est.
  1. uncanny, so as to inspire superstitious fear; weird

    an eerie midnight howl.

  2. Chiefly Scot. affected with superstitious fear.


eerie

/ ˈɪərɪ /

adjective

  1. (esp of places, an atmosphere, etc) mysteriously or uncannily frightening or disturbing; weird; ghostly


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Derived Forms

  • ˈeeriness, noun
  • ˈeerily, adverb

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Other Words From

  • ee·ri·ly adverb
  • ee·ri·ness noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of eerie1

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English eri, dialectal variant of argh, Old English earg “cowardly”; cognate with Old Frisian erg, Old Norse argr “evil,” German arg “cowardly”

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Word History and Origins

Origin of eerie1

C13: originally Scottish and Northern English, probably from Old English earg cowardly, miserable

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Synonym Study

See weird.

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Example Sentences

Yet the eerie echoing of the earlier faux interview in another major media outlet was unsettling for jazz lovers.

Yet there are glimpses of surpassingly eerie dystopian beauty.

An examination of the eerie similarities between Litchfield Prison and Agrestic.

Plus wearing gowns, gloves, goggles and masks imparts an eerie moonwalk sensation as one enters the facility.

The music is eerie and disturbing, and it is easy to imagine how revolutionary it sounded in 1983.

Overhead the rocky walls began to close, the light grew dim, ahead came that eerie glow from the magnetic statue.

She smiled like one who saw a happy vision, and an eerie expression stole into her face.

With another eerie howl the machine soared once more and bobbed completely over the cone to the street which must lie beyond it.

The eerie scream that came echoing through the ship seemed to lift up every single strand of hair on Thompson's head.

As Barney said, it made him “feel quite solemn-like and eerie to travel through the woods by wather.”

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