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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious;
- Example: "an eerie feeling of deja vu"

2. inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening;
- Example: "an uncomfortable and eerie stillness in the woods"
- Example: "an eerie midnight howl"
[syn: eerie, eery]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster] She whose elfin prancer springs By night to eery warblings. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 2. Affected with fear; affrighted. --Burns. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

eerie adj 1: suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious; "an eerie feeling of deja vu" 2: inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening; "an uncomfortable and eerie stillness in the woods"; "an eerie midnight howl" [syn: eerie, eery]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

70 Moby Thesaurus words for "eerie": arcane, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing, bizarre, blue, cadaverous, corpselike, crawly, creepy, deadly, deathlike, deathly, deathly pale, dreadful, eldritch, esoteric, extramundane, extraterrestrial, fantastic, fey, frightening, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, grisly, grotesque, gruesome, haggard, hypernormal, hyperphysical, livid, lurid, macabre, mortuary, mysterious, numinous, occult, otherworldly, pale, preterhuman, preternatural, preternormal, pretersensual, psychic, scary, spectral, spiritual, spookish, spooky, strange, superhuman, supernatural, supernormal, superphysical, supersensible, supersensual, supramundane, supranatural, transcendental, transmundane, uncanny, unco, uncolike, unearthly, unhuman, unworldly, wan, weird