eerie
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i 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.
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| —adj , eerier, eeriest | |
| (esp of places, an atmosphere, etc) mysteriously or uncannily frightening or disturbing; weird; ghostly | |
| [C13: originally Scottish and Northern English, probably from Old English earg cowardly, miserable] | |
| 'eerily | |
| —adv | |
| 'eeriness | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
eerie
c.1300, north England and Scottish 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. Related: Eerily.
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Example sentences
Several eerie things in the story seemed to presage Ledger's death.
It's disconnected from feeling, and an eerie blankness-it's too shallow to be called nihilism-undermines even the best scenes.
There is, for instance, something unutterably eerie about the earliest photograph to show a human being.
But, on the lunar surface where the only breeze is the solar wind, there is an eerie permanence.
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