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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. suggesting the operation of supernatural influences;
- Example: "an eldritch screech"
- Example: "the three weird sisters"
- Example: "stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures"- John Galsworthy
- Example: "an unearthly light"
- Example: "he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"- Henry Kingsley
[syn: eldritch, weird, uncanny, unearthly]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Eldritch \El"dritch\, a.
   Hideous; ghastly; as, an eldritch shriek or laugh. [Local,
   Eng.]
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

eldritch
    adj 1: suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; "an
           eldritch screech"; "the three weird sisters";
           "stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures"-
           John Galsworthy; "an unearthly light"; "he could hear the
           unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"- Henry
           Kingsley [syn: eldritch, weird, uncanny,
           unearthly]