Thesaurus: eery

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1. a. Serving to inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts; wild; weird; as, eerie stories.
2. a. Affected with fear; affrighted.
3. adj. inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening
4. 1. Serving to inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts; wild; weird; as, eerie stories. She whose elfin prancer springs By night to eery warblings. Tennyson. 2. Affected with fear; affrighted. Burns.
5. j:100 s inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening