English
Alternative forms
Adjective
eerie (comparative eerier, superlative eeriest)
- strange, weird, fear-inspiring.
- The eerie sounds seemed to come from the graveyard after midnight.
- (Scotland) fearful, timid.
- 1883, George MacDonald, Donal Grant
- She began to feel eerie.
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weird
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- Japanese: 不気味な (ぶきみな, bukimi-na)
- Maori: whakahaehae
- Norwegian: skummel, nifs
- Portuguese: estranho (pt), assustador (pt), esquisito (pt)
- Romanian: straniu (ro), superstițios (ro)
- Russian: стра́нный (ru) (stránnyj), жу́ткий (ru) (žútkij), злове́щий (ru) (zlovéščij), мра́чный (ru) (mráčnyj), сверхъесте́ственный (ru) (sverxʺjestéstvennyj)
- Serbo-Croatian: stran (sh), čudan (sh)
- Slovak: zvláštny, čudný, podozrivý
- Spanish: misterioso, extraño (es)
- Swedish: konstig (sv) c, skum (sv), mystisk (sv), kuslig (sv)
- Turkish: ürkütücü (tr), esrarengiz (tr)
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