'Uncanny' definitions:
Definition of 'uncanny'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; "an eldritch screech"; "the three weird sisters"; "stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures"- John Galsworthy; "an unearthly light"; "he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"- Henry Kingsley [syn: eldritch, weird, uncanny, unearthly]
adjective
Surpassing the ordinary or normal; "Beyond his preternatural affability there is some acid and some steel" - George Will; "his uncanny sense of direction" [syn: preternatural, uncanny]
Definition of 'Uncanny'
From: GCIDE
- Uncanny \Un*can"ny\, a. Not canny; unsafe; strange; weird; ghostly. --Sir W. Scott. -- {Un*can"ni*ness}, n. --G. Eliot. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'uncanny'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- awe-inspiring,
- awesome,
- awful,
- awing,
- bizarre,
- blue,
- cadaverous,
- corpselike,
- creepy,
- deadly,
- deathlike,
- deathly,
- deathly pale,
- eerie,
- eldritch,
- ghastly,
- ghostlike,
- ghostly,
- grisly,
- gruesome,
- haggard,
- livid,
- lurid,
- macabre,
- mortuary,
- mysterious,
- numinous,
- pale,
- spookish,
- spooky,
- superhuman,
- supernormal,
- unco,
- uncolike,
- unearthly,
- unnatural,
- wan,
- weird