spookish

adjective

Definition of spookishnext
as in haunting
fearfully and mysteriously strange or fantastic the spookish interior of a Victorian mansion that had seen better days

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  1. haunting
  2. eerie
  3. creepy
Adjective
  • That film won best film while Laura Carreira’s haunting debut feature On Falling won the Sutherland Award in the First Feature Competition.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
  • But the song’s piano version, recorded earlier in 2018, is sparser and even more haunting.
    Kristen S. Hé, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
Definition of haunting
Adjective
  • Although the weather remained eerie, Ingham County voters found a way to the polls to clost out the 2024 election year.
    Arpan Lobo, Nushrat Rahman, Natalie Davies, Lindsay Tague, Alexander Boesch, Sarah Moore, Sophia Jundy, Mikia Lawrence, Alec Mork, Siddhi Choubey and Sonja Krohn, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Then the divers began to find porcelain, more than three hundred and fifty thousand pieces in all, many of them stacked in eerie columns, their wooden crates having rotted away.
    Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of eerie
Adjective
  • But the youngsters' older siblings took costume ideas into their own hands, with Luna rocking a creepy black-and-red clown look while Miles dressed up and dabbed as DJ Marshmello.
    Jen Juneau, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
  • In the opening minutes, Ani gamely deflects creepy customer questions.
    Lily Burana, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of creepy
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