Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Inspiring inexplicable fear, dread, or uneasiness; strange and frightening. synonym: weird.
- adjective Scots Frightened or intimidated by superstition.
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
eery .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Serving to inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts; wild; weird.
- adjective Affected with fear; affrighted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
strange ,weird ,fear -inspiring. - adjective Scotland
fearful ,timid .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious
- adjective inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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When the final buzzer sounded, the Woodinville junior was overcome with what she called an "eerie" feeling.
The Seattle Times 2011
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What's eerie is that Republicans then were saying some of the same things Democrats are saying now.
In run-up to midterms, glimmers of hope for Democrats? Dan Balz 2010
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What really makes button, button so eerie, is its familiarity.
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But as I was mulling this a little later, I was suddenly struck by one of those things that was probably already obvious to everyone else: There are a handful of strange inflection points where rock nerd culture and mass culture are in eerie synchrony for a few moments before skittering off in their respective ways for a bit — and one of them was my early teens.
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The stage is completely clear, except for a chair in eerie spotlight.
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Ordinary things gain eerie contours when illuminated by the imagination of this lonely girl.
Archive 2007-09-01 2007
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Ordinary things gain eerie contours when illuminated by the imagination of this lonely girl.
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Mysore, and they mirror the Maccabees story in eerie and powerful ways.
Projection, Patriotism, Surrogation: Handel in Calcutta 2006
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To call this tale eerie is a bit of an understatement.
REVIEW: The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich by Fritz Leiber 2005
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STREATOR -- Soldiers 'paths may cross in eerie ways years after the battles have ended.
Bunker, Park G. 1990
oroboros commented on the word eerie
Along with llama one of the few words that if you drop either the first or the second letter results in a homonym. Many such as, say, wrack result in a homonym only in the instance of dropping the first letter--not the second.
May 2, 2007