eerie

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: ee=rie

CIDE DICTIONARY

eerie, a. [Scotch, fr. AS. earh timid.].

•  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."  [1913 Webster]
•  Affected with fear; affrighted.  Burns.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

eerie, adj. (eerier, eeriest) gloomy and strange; weird, frightening (an eerie silence).

Derivative

eerily adv. eeriness n.

Etymology

orig. N.Engl. and Sc. eri, of obscure orig.: cf. OE earg cowardly

THESAURUS

eerie

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