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un⋅can⋅ny

  [uhn-kan-ee]
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–adjective
1. having or seeming to have a supernatural or inexplicable basis; beyond the ordinary or normal; extraordinary: uncanny accuracy; an uncanny knack of foreseeing trouble.
2. mysterious; arousing superstitious fear or dread; uncomfortably strange: Uncanny sounds filled the house.
Origin:
1590–1600; un- 1 + canny

Related forms:
un⋅can⋅ni⋅ly, adverb
un⋅can⋅ni⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
2. preternatural, odd. See weird.

Antonyms:
2. ordinary, natural.
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un·can·ny   (ŭn-kān'ē)   
adj.   un·can·ni·er, un·can·ni·est

  1. Peculiarly unsettling, as if of supernatural origin or nature; eerie. See Synonyms at weird.

  2. So keen and perceptive as to seem preternatural.


[un-1 + canny, fortunate, safe (obsolete).]
un·can'ni·ly adv., un·can'ni·ness n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

uncanny 
1596, "mischievous;" 1773 in the sense of "associated with the supernatural," originally Scottish and northern English, from un- (1) "not" + canny.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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