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   eerie

   /ˈɪəri/

   adjective

   • 1. strange and frightening: "an eerie green glow in the sky"

   Word Origin Middle English (originally northern English and Scots in the sense ‘fearful’): probably from Old English earg ‘cowardly’, of Germanic origin; related to German arg.

   Derivatives

   • 1. eeriness noun

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   What does the word eerie mean?

   • According to Collins English Dictionary, Merriam-Webster and the American Heritage Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, the word eerie is an adjective that describes something that is strange and frightening, that sends a chill down your spine. One can add the suffixes er and est to make eerier and eeriest.

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   What is an example of eerie?

   • The word eerie can be used in many different sentences in the English language. Below are several examples of eerie. The absence of the activity at the school on the first day of school at Princeton University was absolutely eerie, and there was a single strand of hair taped to each locker.

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   What is a synonym for eerie?

   • strange, mysterious and frightening synonym uncanny I found the silence underwater really eerie. He had an eerie feeling that he was not alone. Questions about grammar and vocabulary? Find the answers with Practical English Usage online, your indispensable guide to problems in English.

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   What does eery mean?

   • 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] Definition of eery.

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   Learn the meaning of eerie, a word that describes something mysterious, strange, or frightening. See synonyms, examples, word history, and related entries for eerie.

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   Eerie means strange in a frightening and mysterious way. Learn how to use this adjective in different contexts, see synonyms and examples from the Cambridge English Corpus.

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   Eerie definition: uncanny, so as to inspire superstitious fear; weird an eerie midnight howl.. See examples of EERIE used in a sentence.

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   Eerie means spooky, creepy or suggestively supernatural. If it's eerie, it's sure to make the hair on the back of your neck stand up.

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   If you describe something as eerie, you mean that it seems strange and frightening, and makes you feel nervous.

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