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2 definitions found 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 1.6 [wn]: eery adj 1: suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious; "an eerie feeling of deja vu" [syn: {eerie}, {spooky}] 2: so strange as to inspire a feeling of fear; "an uncomfortable and eerie stillness in the woods"; "an eerie midnight howl" [syn: {eerie}]
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