Vocabulary Word
Word: eerie
Definition: weird; causing fear because strange
Definition: weird; causing fear because strange
Sentences Containing 'eerie'
This must have been an amazingly new piece of realism at the time, and is wonderfully used, to give an eerie effect to the darkened end of the room.
'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was frightened and ran out again.
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