uncanny
    adj 1: suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; "an
           eldritch screech"; "the three weird sisters";
           "stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures"-
           John Galsworthy; "an unearthly light"; "he could hear the
           unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"- Henry
           Kingsley [syn: eldritch, weird, uncanny,
           unearthly]
    2: surpassing the ordinary or normal; "Beyond his preternatural
       affability there is some acid and some steel" - George Will;
       "his uncanny sense of direction" [syn: preternatural,
       uncanny]

Uncanny \Un*can"ny\, a.
   Not canny; unsafe; strange; weird; ghostly. --Sir W. Scott.
   -- Un*can"ni*ness, n. --G. Eliot.
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