eerie
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adjective
(
eerier
,
eeriest
)
strange
and
frightening
:
得体の知れない, 奇妙な; 〈光･音楽･音･自然現象などが〉気味の悪い, 〈一致した状態･類似性などが〉不気味な; 陰鬱な.
e.g.
an eerie green glow in the sky.
DERIVATIVES
eeriness
|ˈirēnəs| noun
ORIGIN
Middle English
(originally
northern English
and
Scots
in the sense ‘
fearful
’): probably from
Old English
earg
‘
cowardly
’, of
Germanic
origin; related to
German
arg
.