'Eery' definitions:
Definition of 'eery'
From: WordNet
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 'Eery'
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]