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also eery
as in creepy
fearfully and mysteriously strange or fantastic
eerie noises would occasionally come from locked rooms in the castle
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Recent Examples of eerie
At first, because I’m not used to it, shopping in relative silence felt eerie.
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Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 12 Mar. 2025
This usually creates a remarkable and eerie phenomenon from Earth: Rather than just displaying a dark, dull lunar disk, the moon’s face will instead turn bloodred.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2025
The play has two fine actors with great onstage chemistry, MJ Sieber and Jessica John, an exceptional set by Mathys Herbert, and eerie atmospheric lighting and sound by designers Curtis Mueller and Logan Kirkendall, respectively.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2025
The moment was so eerie and absurd that it was rehashed online for weeks.
—Steven Hyden, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
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Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 12 Mar. 2025
This usually creates a remarkable and eerie phenomenon from Earth: Rather than just displaying a dark, dull lunar disk, the moon’s face will instead turn bloodred.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2025
The play has two fine actors with great onstage chemistry, MJ Sieber and Jessica John, an exceptional set by Mathys Herbert, and eerie atmospheric lighting and sound by designers Curtis Mueller and Logan Kirkendall, respectively.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2025
The moment was so eerie and absurd that it was rehashed online for weeks.
—Steven Hyden, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for eerie
Adjective
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Both versions have the great misfortune of spending time with her father, Jame Eagan (Michael Siberry) who ratchets up the creepy factor to eleven.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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Macfadyen is the perfect creepy suburban dad, gaslighting his wife into submission when not tending to his model train and town with his son in a wooden shed.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
9 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Yes and no, which is a really weird thing about me.—
Chris O'Falt,
IndieWire,
11 Mar. 2025
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The weirdest thing about it relative to those older pre-M2 Airs is still the display notch, a small cutout at the top of the screen that houses the camera.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Krauss’s ethereal voice is as haunting as ever on this mournful ballad, where doleful lyrics look back on a time marked by regret and deceit, and get elevated by the elegant interplay between Krauss’ voice and Jerry Douglas’s soul-piercing steel guitar.—
Jessica Nicholson,
Billboard,
3 Feb. 2025
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Set to the same eerily catchy tune by composer Theodore Shapiro, the Season 2 incarnation of the credits — seen for the first time in Episode 2, now streaming — are even more haunting, diving into the surreal world of Mark’s brain and introducing other characters and landscapes.—
Esther Zuckerman,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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“Eerie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eerie. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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