eerie

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Twice in his life he confessed to having felt "eerie"--once at Glamis Castle, which was said to be haunted by a Presence in a Secret Chamber, and once when he believed that he saw an apparition on his way home in the twilight; but he usually jests cheerfully when he speaks of the supernatural.

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  1. adjective Inspiring inexplicable fear, dread, or uneasiness; strange and frightening.
  2. adjective Suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious. See Synonyms at weird.
  3. adjective Scots Frightened or intimidated by superstition.

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  • I tried to sense things, tried to maybe pick up some kind of eerie or spooky vibrations.
  • And even more eerie is their disturbing resemblance to townsfolk, reports CBS News correspondent Cynthia Bowers. —  WIBW - HomePage - Headlines
  • A sense of the eerie was upon me, and for a second I thought it was Doe's voice D Company," I called hollowly, "10th East Cheshires Ah, good!" —  Tell England A Study in a Generation
  • Twice in his life he confessed to having felt "eerie"--once at Glamis Castle, which was said to be haunted by a Presence in a Secret Chamber, and once when he believed that he saw an apparition on his way home in the twilight; but he usually jests cheerfully when he speaks of the supernatural. —  The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance
  • Sad and eerie, and maybe for this final season, avoidable. —  detnews.com - Local
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  1. Middle English eri, fearful, from Old English earg, cowardly.
 

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