Hypertext Webster Gateway: "eerie"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Eerie \Ee"rie\, Eery \Ee"ry\, a. [Scotch, fr. AS. earh timid.]
1. Serving to inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts;
wild; weird; as, eerie stories.
She whose elfin prancer springs By night to eery
warblings. --Tennyson.
2. Affected with fear; affrighted. --Burns.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
eerie
adj 1: suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious; "an eerie
feeling of deja vu" [syn: {eery}, {spooky}]
2: so strange as to inspire a feeling of fear; "an
uncomfortable and eerie stillness in the woods"; "an eerie
midnight howl" [syn: {eery}]
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