About  |  Kamus SABDA Mobile
Table of Contents -- eerie
POS
HYPHEN
WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
THESAURUS
Link, Gadget and Share
Copy the code below to your site:
Link
Gadget
Share
 Facebook
 Twitter
Add to your browser

eerie

 : 
Adjective
 : 
ee=rie

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective eerie has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

eeriea. [Scotch, fr. AS. earh timid.].
  •  Serving to inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts; wild; weird; as, eerie stories.  [1913 Webster]
    "She whose elfin prancer springs
    By night to eery warblings.
    "  [1913 Webster]
  •  Affected with fear; affrighted.  Burns.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

eerie, adj. (eerier, eeriest) gloomy and strange; weird, frightening (an eerie silence).

Derivative
eerily adv. eeriness n.
Etymology
orig. N.Engl. and Sc. eri, of obscure orig.: cf. OE earg cowardly

THESAURUS

eerie

arcane, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing, bizarre, blue, cadaverous, corpselike, crawly, creepy, deadly, deathlike, deathly, deathly pale, dreadful, eldritch, esoteric, extramundane, extraterrestrial, fantastic, fey, frightening, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, grisly, grotesque, gruesome, haggard, hypernormal, hyperphysical, livid, lurid, macabre, mortuary, mysterious, numinous, occult, otherworldly, pale, preterhuman, preternatural, preternormal, pretersensual, psychic, scary, spectral, spiritual, spookish, spooky, strange, superhuman, supernatural, supernormal, superphysical, supersensible, supersensual, supramundane, supranatural, transcendental, transmundane, uncanny, unco, uncolike, unearthly, unhuman, unworldly, wan, weird
See related words and definitions of word "eerie" in Indonesian
copyright © 2012 Yayasan Lembaga SABDA (YLSA) | To report a problem/suggestion