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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.
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            She whose elfin prancer springs
            By night to eery warblings.           --Tennyson.
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   2. Affected with fear; affrighted. --Burns.
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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]