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uncanny
[ uhn-kan-ee ]
adjective
- having or seeming to have a supernatural or inexplicable basis; beyond the ordinary or normal; extraordinary:
uncanny accuracy; an uncanny knack of foreseeing trouble.
- mysterious; arousing superstitious fear or dread; uncomfortably strange:
Uncanny sounds filled the house.
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uncanny
/ ʌˈæɪ /
adjective
- characterized by apparently supernatural wonder, horror, etc
- beyond what is normal or expected
an uncanny accuracy
Derived Forms
- ܲˈԲԾԱ, noun
- ܲˈԲԾ, adverb
Other 51Թ Forms
- ܲ·n· adverb
- ܲ·n·Ա noun
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Restlessly imaginative and experimental, they had an uncanny ability to communicate sophisticated musical ideas to a mass audience, on albums including Revolver, Sgt Pepper's and The White Album.
The result is an uncanny sense of vivid presence.
The effect is to turn real human faces — mostly women, but some men — so fake-looking it's uncanny, as if an AI image generator had replaced a person with an exaggerated version of themselves.
“This gentleman here,” Wilson said loudly, “has an uncanny ability to communicate with them all.”
How a 30-year-old singer, born in Argentina and raised in Spain, manages to channel the smoldering melodrama of Latin music’s golden era with such uncanny precision remains a bit of a mystery.
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