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Definition of Spookish
1. Adjective. (informal) Frightening or unnerving in the manner of something eerie or supernatural; spooky. ¹
2. Adjective. (informal often of a horse or other animal) Easily startled, frightened, or unnerved. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spookish
1. spooky [adj] - See also: spooky
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spookish
Literary usage of Spookish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report (1899)
"... Eagan by name, to enter the trench to assist in tramping down the earth as it
was dumped from wheelbarrows, he remarked: " It is a pretty spookish place ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"... and, when gathered together, a more grewsome and spookish crew it would be
difficult to imagine outside of Pluto's especial domain. ..."
3. The Bookman (1918)
"To tell the truth, this has rather surprised me, as I had supposed that the
glamour of the spookish and mysterious was for boys almost exclusively. ..."
4. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"Then panic- stricken, as wiser people have been before her, over the dreadful
spookish remoteness of a perfectly normal human being who refuses either to ..."
5. Contemporary British Literature: Bibliographies and Study Outlines by John Matthews Manly, Edith Rickert (1921)
"Which of the two—Bottomley or De la Mare—is more directly pictorial? which is
more "spookish"? which has more power of suggestion? which has the greater ..."
6. German Ideals of To-day: And Other Essays on German Culture by Kuno Francke (1907)
"And Amadeus Hoffmann, the master of grotesquely spookish effects, was at the same
time a master in the impressionist manner of representing the "ewig ..."
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