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Another word for eerie

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Adjective

  1. Of a mysteriously strange and usually frightening nature

    See also:

    usual

    fear

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Another word for eerie

Modifier
  1. See also:

    weird

    uncanny

    frightful

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Sentence Examples

  • The evening sun made eerie shapes in the forested landscape.

  • All of them wore eerie red contact lenses.

  • The eerie quiet that followed amplified the ringing of her ears.

  • The small man with white irises drew near her, his eerie, unblinking gaze making her uncomfortable.

  • Some of the tattoos of the dead still glowed, the eerie red tribal patterns punctuating the landscape.

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