eerie

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈɪəɹi/    美 /ˈɪəɹi/|/ˈɪɚi/|/ˈiɹi/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An eerie creature or thing.
    — Other of these terrible Eeries began now to congregate beneath the canoe, taking courage by the example of their cowardly companion, all alike curious about this charming visitant in the upper world.
  2. Alternative spelling of eyrie. alt-of,alternative
    — I'm not sure, indeed, that we didn't scare the eagles from their eeries; at all events we thought we did.
形容词 adj.
  1. Inspiring fear, especially in a mysterious or shadowy way; strange, weird.
    — The eerie sounds seemed to come from the graveyard after midnight.
  2. Frightened, timid. Scotland
    — She began to feel eerie.

词形变化

eerier comparative eeriest superlative eery alternative eeries plural eeries plural

词汇关系

近义词
chilling creepy eldritch freakish frightening grim offputting scary sinister spooky unsettling
上位词
odd peculiar strange uncanny weird characteristic
衍生词
eerieness eerily eeriness eerisome
相关词
sus

词源

词源 1
From Middle English eri (“fearful”), from Old English earg (“cowardly, fearful”), from Proto-West Germanic *arg, from Proto-Germanic *argaz. Akin to Scots ergh, argh from the same Old English source. Doublet of argh.
词源 2
See eyrie.
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