eerie

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Inspiring fear, especially in a mysterious or shadowy way

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

   • The eerie sounds seemed to come from the graveyard after midnight.
   • An eerie feeling came over me.
   • Dan was beginning to feel very depressed when suddenly the eerie howl of a dingo rang out[.]
2. 2

   Frightened, timid.

   • She began to feel eerie.
   • 'It is my business to read the hearts o' men,' said the other. 'And who may ye be?' said Heriotside, growing eerie.
3. 3

   An eerie creature or thing.

   • Other of these terrible Eeries began now to congregate beneath the canoe, taking courage by the example of their cowardly companion, all alike curious about this charming visitant in the upper world.
   • I tell you it's weirdsville down there, a spaced-out botanical Twilight Zone of creepies, crawlies, eeries, and ghastlies.
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   1. 4

      Alternative spelling of eyrie.

      • I'm not sure, indeed, that we didn't scare the eagles from their eeries; at all events we thought we did.
      • They hang suspended over precipices, these rocky eeries of grim birds of prey that bequeath their appetite for murder and loot to their brood.
      • Of the heavenly azure, and of the eeries suspended on the highest rocks they had indeed heard something, but they had never seen them, and in spite of their wishes it was no longer the old keen home-sickness of the old eagles.

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