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uncanny

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  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  1.6  [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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