Entry Word: uncanny

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 being beyond one's powers to know, understand, or explain <a number of uncanny parallels in the lives of the two women> — see mysterious 1
2 being so extraordinary or abnormal as to suggest powers which violate the laws of nature <an uncanny gift for knowing when someone, no matter how distant, needed help> — see supernatural 2
3 fearfully and mysteriously strange or fantastic <uncanny and unexpected shadows along the mountainsides> — see eerie