Synonyms 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"

   Synonyms:
   eery

   Antonyms:
   natural, familiar

2. eerie, eeryadjective

   inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening

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

   Synonyms:
   eery, eerie

   Antonyms:
   familiar, natural

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1. List of paraphrases for "eerie":

   sinister, strange

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1. Neighbor Moe Assiff:

   She just let out a hysterical scream. It was eerie, she was screaming about her kids: `My kids! The kids!,' grabbing her hair and trying to pull her hair out. The cops then ushered her down the road into a police cruiser.

2. 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.

3. Photographer Johnny Joo:

   It felt cold, rather empty and eerie – not so much a creepy eerie but a more interesting one, i knew Mike Tyson had once just hung out here and now I stood staring down everything that had been left behind.

4. Michelle McKeown of Oakland:

   It feels eerie, apocalyptic and frightening, i've lived in Bay Area since 1988 and never experienced such doom coming from the sky.

5. Yoni Brook:

   It was still sort of a moment of initial shock, there was an eerie quiet. And there wasn't like a ton of equipment down there. There weren't cranes doing any work yet. It was just individual firefighters and groups of firefighters trying to make sense of a little bit of the futility of what was in front of them.