eerie

Plural: eeries

Adjective Satellite

• suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious
  • "an eerie feeling of deja vu"
• inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening
  • "an uncomfortable and eerie stillness in the woods"
  • "an eerie midnight howl"

Adj

• Inspiring fear, especially in a mysterious or shadowy way; strange, weird.
• Frightened, timid.

Noun

• An eerie creature or thing.
• Alternative spelling of eyrie.

Adjective

• Strange and frightening, uncanny, or mysterious.

Examples

• The EERIE silence from my opponent usually means they’re planning a big word in Words With Friends.
• The eerie sounds seemed to come from the graveyard after midnight.

Synonyms

eery, aberrant, abnormal, alien, anomalous, as queer as Dick's hatband, bizarre, chilling, creepy, curious, deviant, discrepant, eerie, eldritch, errant, exceptional, extraordinary, fey, forby, freak, freakish, freaky, fremd, frightening, funny, grim, heteroclite, hinky, incongruitous, incongruous, irregular, kooky, monstrous, nonstandard, odd, offputting, out of the ordinary, outlandish, outré, peculiar, quaint, queer, queer as Dick's hatband, queer as a clockwork orange, queer as a coot, queer as a nine bob note, queer as a three dollar bill, rare, rum, rummy, scary, selcouth, seld, singular, sinister, spooky, strange, trippy, uncanny, uncommon, unconventional, unearthly, unexpected, unreasonable, unsettling, unusual, unwonted, weird, weirdsome, yampy

Related Words

sus, EERILY

Anagrams of eerie