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eerier

eerier is the comparative form of eerie.

Meaning of eerie

Adjective

eerie (comparative eerier, superlative eeriest)

  1. Inspiring fear, especially in a mysterious or shadowy way; strange, weird.
    • The eerie sounds seemed to come from the graveyard after midnight.
    Synonyms:
    creepy, spooky, aberrant, abnormal, alien, anomalous, as queer as Dick's hatband, bizarre, booky, curious
  2. (Scotland) Frightened, timid.
    • She began to feel eerie.1883, George MacDonald, Donal Grant

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What is eerier the comparative form of?
Eerier is the comparative form of eerie.

Words near eerier in the dictionary

  1. eepy
  2. eer
  3. Eereima
  4. eerie
  5. eerieness
  6. eerier
  7. eeries
  8. eeriest
  9. eerily
  10. eeriness
  11. eerinesses

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