eldritch
/ˈɛl(d)rɪtʃ
/adjective
Weird and sinister or ghostly: an eldritch screech...
- There was a piercing, petrifying, eldritch screech.
- The whites beneath her lowered eyes showed as she said this, and for an instant Anest felt as though he spoke, not to his wife, but to a perfect stranger, the purely eldritch creature she had once been.
- And then she joined hands with the other witch, and eldritch force sizzled through them like a river of blue lightning, and my plans changed on the spot.
Origin
Early 16th century (originally Scots): perhaps related to elf.
- Persianized
- Persianizing
- Persian jasmine
- Persian lamb
- Persian leather
- Persian-like
- Persian lilac
- Persian lily
- Persian lynx
- Persian manna
- Persian morocco
- Persian pattern
- Persian ranunculus
- Persian rug
- Persian ware
- Persian Wars
- Persian wheel
- Persian Yellow
- persicaria
- persicary
- persico
- persicot
- persiennes
- persiflage
- persiflate