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eerie

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[ eer-ee ]

adjective

eerier, eeriest.
  1. uncanny, so as to inspire superstitious fear; weird

    an eerie midnight howl.

  2. Chiefly Scot. affected with superstitious fear.


eerie

/ ˈɪəɪ /

adjective

  1. (esp of places, an atmosphere, etc) mysteriously or uncannily frightening or disturbing; weird; ghostly
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈԱ, noun
  • ˈ, adverb
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Other 51Թ Forms

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of eerie1

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English eri, dialectal variant of argh, Old English earg “cǷɲ”; cognate with Old Frisian erg, Old Norse argr “e,” German arg “cǷɲ”
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of eerie1

C13: originally Scottish and Northern English, probably from Old English earg cowardly, miserable
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Dancers rolled by on wheeled stools like little space people to some of Marcel Dupré’s eerie “24 Organ Inventions.”

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In 1996 I worked at Disney Interactive, my Windows 95 operating system skinned with an “X-Files” theme; when I arrived early, the TV show’s eerie chimes echoed across the empty office.

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A derelict housing estate dubbed "Scotland's Chernobyl" for its eerie ghost-town like appearance is finally about to be razed to the ground.

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From childhood, I think I had some eerie sense of just how bad it could get in America.

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Backed by an eerie beat, the track revisits their promiscuous, party lifestyle with hedonistic lyricism.

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