'Eerie' definitions:

Definition of 'eerie'

From: WordNet
adjective
Suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious; "an eerie feeling of deja vu"
adjective
Inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening; "an uncomfortable and eerie stillness in the woods"; "an eerie midnight howl" [syn: eerie, eery]

Definition of 'Eerie'

From: GCIDE
  • 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]

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