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ee⋅rie
[eer-ee] 
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–adjective, -ri⋅er, -ri⋅est.
| 1. | uncanny, so as to inspire superstitious fear; weird: an eerie midnight howl. |
| 2. | Chiefly Scot. affected with superstitious fear. |
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| ee·rie or ee·ry (îr'ē) adj. ee·ri·er, ee·ri·est
[Middle English eri, fearful, from Old English earg, cowardly.] ee'ri·ly adv., ee'ri·ness n. |
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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. She whose elfin prancer springs By night to eery warblings. --Tennyson. 2. Affected with fear; affrighted. --Burns.
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Language Translation for : eerie
Spanish:
misterioso, espeluznante,
German:
unheimlich,
Japanese:
ぞっとするような
eerie
c.1300, north England and Scot. variant of O.E. earg "cowardly, fearful," from P.Gmc. *argaz (cf. O.N. argr "unmanly, voluptuous," Swed. arg "malicious," Ger. arg "bad, wicked"). Sense of "causing fear because of strangeness" is first attested 1792.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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