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词汇 eerie
释义 eerie
adjective
uk /ˈɪə.ri/ us /ˈɪr.i/
strange in a frightening and mysterious way: 怪异而令人恐惧的
She heard the eerie noise of the wind howling through the trees.她听到风吹过树丛发出怪异而可怕的呼啸声。
eerie feelingHe had the eerie feeling that he had met this stranger before.他有种恐怖而离奇的感觉,觉得以前见过这个陌生人。
Synonyms
bizarre
curious(STRANGE)
eccentric(STRANGE)
flaky(PERSON)informal sometimes offensive
freakish
funny(STRANGE)
odd(STRANGE)
outlandishdisapproving
peculiar(STRANGE)
spookyinformal
strange(UNUSUAL)
weird
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Strange, suspicious and unnatural
aberrant
aberrantly
abnormal
abnormally
add
freakishness
funnily
funnily enoughidiom
ghostliness
ghoul
perversely
perversity
perverted
pervy
presence
wack
wackadoodle
wackily
wackiness
wacky

Related words


eerily
eeriness

eerie | American Dictionary


eerie
adjective
us/ˈɪr·i/
strange in a frightening and mysterious way:
Dust lay thick on the furniture, and cobwebs formed eerie patterns in the shadowy corners.

Examples of eerie


eerie
Otherwise, the scene is characterised by the eerie sound of the planes, the drone of their engines and crackle of machine gunfire.
The role of contingency in human history casts an intriguing, if not eerie, light on our present condition.
A new road will traverse the areas reclaimed from the sea and open up this eerie landscape to the public.
From start to finish, the album never loses its dark, eerie feeling.
The estrangement of the melody from its old physical source is provocative, and surrounded by a constellation of eerie motives.
After only eight bars, the hint of a second strophe disintegrates into an eerie transition narrating the disappearance of the ghost.
This eerie silence and lack of cross-fertilisation should be thought of as curious.
The characters' valediction is accompanied by the orchestral restatement of the cabaletta's first theme, to which is added the eerie sound of a harp.
The movement is launched and driven by nervous energy, grippingly held in check during a tense central section that features solos of eerie foreboding.
While the lying-in-state became at points ungovernable, the funeral procession was marked by an almost eerie quiescence on the part of the crowds.
A murmur passes through the entourage; eerie blackness falls on the court.
There is marvellous lyricism, pawky humour, eerie fantasy, all limned in a spare and vivid style of presentation that never wastes a note.
Too eerie to describe, it all seemed like the end of the world.
It was a strange and eerie experience.
Reunited with the concertino group of marimba, harp and cimbalom, the violin now acquires an eerie, spectral quality as the preceding movements are revisited in a 'ritual of annihilation'.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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