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Definition of Eerie
1. Adjective. Suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious. "An eerie feeling of deja vu"
2. Adjective. Inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening. "An eerie midnight howl"
Definition of Eerie
1. a. Serving to inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts; wild; weird; as, eerie stories.
Definition of Eerie
1. Adjective. strange, weird, fear-inspiring. ¹
2. Adjective. (Scotland) fearful, timid. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Eerie
1. weird [adj -RIER, -RIEST] : EERILY [adv] - See also: weird
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eerie
Literary usage of Eerie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"Cerous hydroxide is slowly oxidised to eerie hydroxide by atmospheric ...
This basic salt separates from a solution of eerie hydroxide in nitric acid. ..."
2. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"eerie [scared ; affected with superstitious fear ; inspiring fear of the ...
Their capon craws and queer ha ha's They made our lugs grow eerie, O. .9. ..."
3. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"The precipitate of eerie iodate is allowed to settle in ... Every trace of the
eerie iodate need not be removed from the beaker. ..."
4. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"The colour of eerie oxide is pure white when prepared at low ... Cerous hydroxide
is slowly oxidised to eerie hydroxide by atmospheric oxygen and more ..."
5. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1849)
"The oxides of lanthanum and didymium then dissolve— being converted into chlorides,
with evolution of ammonia—while pure eerie oxide ..."
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