Entry Word: eerie

Function: adjective

Meaning: fearfully and mysteriously strange or fantastic <eerie noises would occasionally come from locked rooms in the castle>

Synonyms creepy, haunting, spooky, uncanny, unearthly, weird

Related Words ghostly, spectral; odd, strange, uncommon, unusual; preternatural, supernatural; enigmatic (also enigmatical), inscrutable, mysterious, puzzling; dreadful, fearsome, horrible, horrifying, terrible, terrifying

Near Antonyms common, commonplace, everyday, normal, ordinary, usual