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eerie or ee·ry [ eer -ee ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈɪər i / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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adjective, ee·ri·er, ee·ri·est.
uncanny, so as to inspire superstitious fear; weird an eerie midnight howl. Chiefly Scot. affected with superstitious fear.
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Origin of eerie First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English eri, dialectal variant of argh, Old English earg “cowardly”; cognate with Old Frisian erg, Old Norse argr “evil,” German arg “cowardly”
OTHER WORDS FROM eerie ee·ri·ly, adverb ee·ri·ness, noun
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How to use eerie in a sentence Faintly we heard the eerie traces of high-pitched whale song, the complicated variation that the males sing, perhaps to warn off other males.
Though this groundbreaking work could lead to better treatments for stroke and other brain injuries, it also opened an eerie gray zone between the living and the dead.
The next day was beautiful, made eerie by the absence of the activity that usually pervades the first day of school in any city.
It’s an odd concept, but in Schweblin’s hands, it works, and the result is an eerie , fascinating meditation on privacy, surveillance, and performance.
Yet our first step was taken even earlier, revealed by an eerie homage to the underworld buried within the foothills of Turkey’s Taurus Mountains.
Yet the eerie echoing of the earlier faux interview in another major media outlet was unsettling for jazz lovers.
Yet there are glimpses of surpassingly eerie dystopian beauty.
An examination of the eerie similarities between Litchfield Prison and Agrestic.
Plus wearing gowns, gloves, goggles and masks imparts an eerie moonwalk sensation as one enters the facility.
The music is eerie and disturbing, and it is easy to imagine how revolutionary it sounded in 1983.
Overhead the rocky walls began to close, the light grew dim, ahead came that eerie glow from the magnetic statue.
She smiled like one who saw a happy vision, and an eerie expression stole into her face.
With another eerie howl the machine soared once more and bobbed completely over the cone to the street which must lie beyond it.
The eerie scream that came echoing through the ship seemed to lift up every single strand of hair on Thompson's head.
As Barney said, it made him “feel quite solemn-like and eerie to travel through the woods by wather.”
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British Dictionary definitions for eerie
adjective eerier or eeriest
(esp of places, an atmosphere, etc) mysteriously or uncannily frightening or disturbing; weird; ghostly
Derived forms of eerie eerily , adverb eeriness , noun Word Origin for eerie C13: originally Scottish and Northern English, probably from Old English earg cowardly, miserable
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