eerie

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  1. ieri 20.97%
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Definitions of eerie

adjective

  1. suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious
  2. inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening

Examples of eerie

  1. But as I was mulling this a little later, I was suddenly struck by one of those things that was probably already obvious to everyone else: There are a handful of strange inflection points where rock nerd culture and mass culture are in eerie synchrony for a few moments before skittering off in their respective ways for a bit — and one of them was my early teens.
  2. The calm was eerie; the vista serene and surreal.
  3. What caught my eye about this is that it bears interesting relation to Bakhtin's concept of the dialogism of the "living word" -- in fact, capitalize that "w" and it would be downright eerie.

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