'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]
Synonyms of 'eerie'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- arcane,
- awe-inspiring,
- awesome,
- awful,
- awing,
- bizarre,
- blue,
- cadaverous,
- corpselike,
- crawly,
- creepy,
- deadly,
- deathlike,
- deathly,
- deathly pale,
- dreadful,
- eldritch,
- esoteric,
- extramundane,
- extraterrestrial,
- fantastic,
- fey,
- frightening,
- ghastly,
- ghostlike,
- ghostly,
- grisly,
- grotesque,
- gruesome,
- haggard,
- hypernormal,
- hyperphysical,
- livid,
- lurid,
- macabre,
- mortuary,
- mysterious,
- numinous,
- occult,
- otherworldly,
- pale,
- preterhuman,
- preternatural,
- preternormal,
- pretersensual,
- psychic,
- scary,
- spectral,
- spiritual,
- spookish,
- spooky,
- strange,
- superhuman,
- supernatural,
- supernormal,
- superphysical,
- supersensible,
- supersensual,
- supramundane,
- supranatural,
- transcendental,
- transmundane,
- uncanny,
- unco,
- uncolike,
- unearthly,
- unhuman,
- unworldly,
- wan,
- weird