eerie

adjective

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈɪəɹi/ / /ˈɪɹi/ / /ˈɪɚi/

adj

Etymology: From Middle English eri (“fearful”), from Old English earg (“cowardly, fearful”), from Proto-West Germanic *arg, from Proto-Germanic *argaz. Akin to Scots ergh, argh from the same Old English source. Doublet of argh.

Inspiring fear, especially in a mysterious or shadowy way; strange, weird.
“The eerie sounds seemed to come from the graveyard after midnight.”
“An eerie feeling came over me.”
Frightened, timid.
“She began to feel eerie.”
“'It is my business to read the hearts o' men,' said the other. 'And who may ye be?' said Heriotside, growing eerie.”

noun

Etymology: See eyrie.

Alternative spelling of eyrie.
“I'm not sure, indeed, that we didn't scare the eagles from their eeries; at all events we thought we did.”
“They hang suspended over precipices, these rocky eeries of grim birds of prey that bequeath their appetite for murder and loot to their brood.”