| 单词 | eerie |
| 释义 | eerie (once / 3183 pages) adj Eerie means spooky, creepy or suggestively supernatural. If it's eerie, it's sure to make the hair on the back of your neck stand up. Back in the 1300s when eerie first came on the scene, it meant "fearful or timid." It took a good 500 years or so before it morphed into the adjective we know today, which now means "causing fear because of strangeness." And the strangeness is key: Something that's eerie isn't just scary. It's mysterious, ghostly, and gives you the creeps. Like dark old castles, misty graveyards and creaky sounds in the middle of the night. WORD FAMILYeerie: eerier, eeriest USAGE EXAMPLESToday, the poem reads like an eerie anticipation of liberal incredulity at Brexit and Trump and the other recent upheavals. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) “When we got to the intersection and then the fee booth, it was eerie. No tracks, no nothing.” Los Angeles Times(Dec 27, 2016) It’s both beautiful and eerie, like a high-tech Overlook Hotel in wintertime. Seattle Times(Dec 20, 2016) 1adj suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious an eerie feeling of deja vu Syn supernatural not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material 2adj inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening an uncomfortable and eerie stillness in the woods an eerie midnight howl Syn eery strange, unusual being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird |
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