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eery

eery is the alternative spelling 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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Forms of eery

comparativeeerier
superlativeeeriest

Questions about eery

What is eery the alternative spelling of?
Eery is the alternative spelling of eerie.

Words near eery in the dictionary

  1. eeriness
  2. eerinesses
  3. eerisome
  4. EERs
  5. Eersel
  6. eery
  7. ees
  8. EESC
  9. eesh
  10. eesome
  11. EEST

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