Hypertext Webster Gateway: "uncanny"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Uncanny \Un*can"ny\, a.
Not canny; unsafe; strange; weird; ghostly. --Sir W. Scott.
-- {Un*can"ni*ness}, n. --G. Eliot.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
uncanny
adj 1: suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; "an
eldritch screech"; "the three weird sisters";
"stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous
creatures"- John Galsworthy; "an unearthly light"; "he
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew
piercing the din"- Henry Kingsley [syn: {eldritch}, {weird},
{unearthly}]
2: beyond what is natural; "his uncanny sense of direction";
(`unco' is chiefly Scottish) [syn: {unco}]
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