eldritch
Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adjective Hideous; ghastly.
Examples
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Berwin gave a kind of eldritch shriek and stepped back a pace, as though to place himself on his guard.
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And the woman, whose voice had risen to a kind of eldritch sing-song, turned with a skip, and was gone.
Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour
Note
This word comes from an Old English term meaning 'strange realm.'
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