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eerie

adjective
🔊/ˈɪəri/
🔊/ˈɪri/
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  1. strange, mysterious and frightening怪异的；神秘的；恐怖的 synonym uncanny
    • an eerie yellow light诡异的黄灯
    • I found the silence underwater really eerie.我发觉水下的寂静很恐怖。🔊🔊
    • He had an eerie feeling that he was not alone.他有一种恐怖的感觉：他不是独自一人。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    • feel
    • look
    • …
    adverb
    • extremely
    • fairly
    • very
    • …
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    Word OriginMiddle English (originally northern English and Scots in the sense ‘fearful’): probably from Old English earg ‘cowardly’, of Germanic origin; related to German arg.