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eerie
/ˈɪɚi/
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What does eerie mean?
adjective
- Inspiring fear, especially in a mysterious or shadowy way; strange, weird.
- Frightened, timid.
noun
- An eerie creature or thing.
More meanings (1)
noun
- Alternative spelling of eyrie.
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For the moment they were feeling less eerie, because Tink was flying with them, and in her light they could distinguish each other.
Wully at once left his position and in the same eerie silence trotted on some twenty feet and again stood across the pathway.
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It was eerie to watch the contour of the arc break, die away into a delicate pallor and reillumine in a travelling riband.
To the very edge of mystery crowded the strange woods noises, the eerie influences of the night, like wolves afraid of the blaze.
The pines were very dense, and sighed and creaked mournfully in the severe frost, and there were other EERIE noises not easy to explain.