Antonyms for EERIE
ˈɪər ieerie

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1. eerieadjective

   Synonyms:
   creepy, spooky

2. eerieadjective

   strange, weird, fear-inspiring.

   The eerie sounds seemed to come from the graveyard after midnight.

   Synonyms:
   creepy, spooky

3. eerieadjective

   fearful, timid.

   Synonyms:
   spooky, creepy

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1. eerieadjective

   suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious

   "an eerie feeling of deja vu"

   Antonyms:
   natural, familiar

   Synonyms:
   eery

2. eerie, eeryadjective

   inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening

   "an uncomfortable and eerie stillness in the woods"; "an eerie midnight howl"

   Antonyms:
   familiar, natural

   Synonyms:
   eery, eerie

How to use EERIE in a sentence?

1. Army Capt. Florent Groberg:

   A man came out of a building to our left walking backwards, it was eerie and looked suspicious. I yelled at him and he turned around immediately and then started walking towards us. He looked like a young man with a beard, wearing man-jams and dark clothing. He didn't appear to be himself that day ... most likely drugged.

2. Douglas Hostadter:

   It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order -- and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.

3. The Warriors:

   Some of the fans were cheering when it happened, and I think the Raptors players understood how serious it was and they sort of quieted the crowd, there was just a couple minutes there where it all seemed so eerie and strange, and it took maybe a little bit for both teams to collect themselves.

4. Paul Reiser today .:

   That was the goal, if you could get on the ‘ Tonight Show, ’ that was the standard. So The Tonight Show felt like a great validation … I had played The Tonight Show in my mind so many times, so when I finally got The Tonight Show, The Tonight Show felt surprisingly comfortable. And then when we recreated the set for The Tonight Show, it was eerie … Because I knew what it felt like to sit on that couch. It was electrifying. If you’re a young comedian, but someone has never heard of you, if you’ve done the' Tonight Show, ’ then people think you must be good. That was the only currency people understood. Certainly my parents did. For them, The Tonight Show was like, ‘ All right, he spent all those years staying up late in clubs and making $ 7 a week, but now he must be OK because he was on' The Tonight Show. ’ There was no other show that had that stamp of approval.

5. Peter Goelz:

   It's eerie, it's unusual or just kind of spooky that this would happen in this area, but we don't know the facts yet.

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