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spooky

/ˈspuːki/

spooky adjective: eerie, or suggestive of ghosts or the supernatural.

Adjective

spooky (comparative spookier, superlative spookiest)

  1. (informal) Eerie, or suggestive of ghosts or the supernatural.
    Synonyms:
    eldritch
  2. (informal) Spooked; afraid; frightened.
    • I thought it was nice, though I found it very quiet, and whenever I was alone in it, I felt spooky.2011, Wilbur Page, I Had to Do It My Way!: One Man's Journey Through Life, page 88
  3. (informal) Unpredictably excitable; skittish (used especially of horses).

spooky meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

spooky in Hindi

eerie; suggestive of ghosts
भुतहा bhuthā

spooky in Urdu

بھیانک, پرآسیب

spooky in Bengali

ভুতুড়ে, রহস্যময়

spooky in Malayalam

sinister, eerie, ghostly
ഭൂതാവിഷ്ടമായ, പെെശാചിക, ദുരൂഹമായ, ലോകാതീതമായ, വിചിത്രലക്ഷണമുള്ള, അഭൗമമായ
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spooky in Kannada
ಭಯಗೊಳಿಸುವ, ಹೆದರಿಸುವ, ಗಾಬರಿ ಉಂಟುಮಾಡುವ, ದಿಗಿಲುಗೊಳಿಸುವ
spooky in Arabic
مُخيف mukhīf, مُخيفة mukhīfa

Examples of spooky in a sentence

  • The acoustics in the opera house gave the whole concert a spooky sound.
  • The dank cave was chilly and spooky.
  • She went missing in somewhat spooky circumstances.

All 27 example sentences with spooky

Synonyms of spooky

Forms of spooky

comparativespookier
superlativespookiest

Origin of spooky

From spook + -y.

Words formed from spooky

Phrases with spooky

Words that rhyme with spooky

Questions about spooky

What does spooky mean?
Spooky means eerie, or suggestive of ghosts or the supernatural.
What is spooky in Hindi?
Spooky in Hindi is भुतहा (bhuthā). See Spooky meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is spooky?
Spooky is an adjective.
How do you pronounce spooky?
Spooky is pronounced /ˈspuːki/ (UK).

Words near spooky in the dictionary

  1. spooktacularly
  2. spooktaculars
  3. spooktastic
  4. Spooktober
  5. Spooktobers
  6. spooky
  7. spooky action at a distance
  8. spooky PAC
  9. spooky PACs
  10. spooky season
  11. spooky seasons

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: spooky (page history and authors); spooky (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); spooky (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); spooky (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); spooky (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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