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Synonyms for eerie

Grammar : Adj
Spell : eer-ee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɪər i

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Définition of eerie

Origin :
  • c.1300, "fearful, timid," north England and Scottish variant of Old English earg "cowardly, fearful," from Proto-Germanic *argaz (cf. Old Frisian erg "evil, bad," Middle Dutch arch "bad," Dutch arg, Old High German arg "cowardly, worthless," German arg "bad, wicked," Old Norse argr "unmanly, voluptuous," Swedish arg "malicious").
  • Sense of "causing fear because of strangeness" is first attested 1792. Related: Eerily. Finnish arka "cowardly" is a Germanic loan-word.
  • adj spooky
Example sentences :
  • Here is something before unknown to the eerie spirits of the woods.
  • Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White
  • The night sounds of the city hummed in eerie cadences in her ears.
  • Extract from : « Highacres » by Jane Abbott
  • About her were all the eerie noises of the dark, the little, little sounds of little, little things.
  • Extract from : « Glory of Youth » by Temple Bailey
  • The moor was sounding loud and eerie with the call of large birds.
  • Extract from : « Gilian The Dreamer » by Neil Munro
  • In this vast solitude there was something weird and eerie that shook her courage.
  • Extract from : « Oh, You Tex! » by William Macleod Raine
  • A Night at an Inn is that peculiar novelty, an eerie and poetical melodrama.
  • Extract from : « Modern British Poetry » by Various
  • Very dark and cold and eerie it was there, and he hurried across to his studio.
  • Extract from : « The Dark Flower » by John Galsworthy
  • Then rose a shrill, vibrating sound, as if of eerie laughter.
  • Extract from : « On the Irrawaddy » by G. A. Henty
  • In the eerie silence of the dead man's room they faced one another.
  • Extract from : « The Sins of Sverac Bablon » by Sax Rohmer
  • At that Simon put on his hat and laughed with an eerie and unpleasant stridency.
  • Extract from : « Doom Castle » by Neil Munro

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