uncanny
- having or seeming to have a supernatural or inexplicable basis; beyond the ordinary or normal; extraordinary: uncanny accuracy; an uncanny knack of foreseeing trouble.
- mysterious; arousing superstitious fear or dread; uncomfortably strange: Uncanny sounds filled the house.
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Contemporary Examples of uncanny
Archaeologists have an uncanny ability to ignore the discomforts and channel the time period and the people they're studying.
In an uncanny way, that describes the precise definition of the hipster, when the term first appeared in the American vocabulary.
Another had an uncanny ability to land paving jobs in Southern Nevada.
Almost nothing has been touched since the fall of the USSR in 1991, providing an uncanny glimpse behind the Iron Curtain.
And from the side, with the lips and ears elongated, the resemblance is uncanny.
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Historical Examples of uncanny
The silence of it discomfited him beyond measure; it was, in a word, uncanny.
The Black BagLouis Joseph Vance
For my part, grim and uncanny as he looked, I was glad to see him.
The Long Labrador TrailDillon Wallace
Not only were his eyes averted from mine, but they were glassed to an uncanny degree.
Ruggles of Red GapHarry Leon Wilson
This knowledge, with the dream, was to him an uncanny thing.
Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The SearchlightMathew Joseph Holt
Everything one says and does seems to turn in one's mouth—it's—it's uncanny.
The Silver Box (First Series Plays)John Galsworthy
uncanny
- characterized by apparently supernatural wonder, horror, etc
- beyond what is normal or expectedan uncanny accuracy