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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

arcane, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing, bizarre, blue, cadaverous, corpselike, crawly, creepy, deadly, deathlike, deathly, deathly pale, dreadful, eldritch, esoteric, extramundane, extraterrestrial, fantastic, fey, frightening, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, grisly, grotesque, gruesome, haggard, hypernormal, hyperphysical, livid, lurid, macabre, mortuary, mysterious, numinous, occult, otherworldly, pale, preterhuman, preternatural, preternormal, pretersensual, psychic, scary, spectral, spiritual, spookish, spooky, strange, superhuman, supernatural, supernormal, superphysical, supersensible, supersensual, supramundane, supranatural, transcendental, transmundane, uncanny, unco, uncolike, unearthly, unhuman, unworldly, wan, weird

Dictionary Results for eerie:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

eerie
    adj 1: suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious; "an eerie
           feeling of deja vu"
    2: inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening; "an
       uncomfortable and eerie stillness in the woods"; "an eerie
       midnight howl" [syn: eerie, eery]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Eerie \Ee"rie\, Eery \Ee"ry\, a. [Scotch, fr. AS. earh timid.]
   1. Serving to inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts;
      wild; weird; as, eerie stories.
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            She whose elfin prancer springs
            By night to eery warblings.           --Tennyson.
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   2. Affected with fear; affrighted. --Burns.
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