eerie
adjective /ˈɪəri/
/ˈɪri/
- strange, mysterious and frightening synonym uncanny
- an eerie yellow light
- I found the silence underwater really eerie.
- He had an eerie feeling that he was not alone.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- feel
- look
- …
- extremely
- fairly
- very
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Word OriginMiddle English (originally northern English and Scots in the sense ‘fearful’): probably from Old English earg ‘cowardly’, of Germanic origin; related to German arg.