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# eerie

adjective (eerie, eerier, eeriest); adverb eerily

«eerie» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Eerie means strange and frightening in a quiet, mysterious way, making you feel uneasy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eerie/#m1)
2. Eerily means strangely, as in eerily quiet or eerily similar. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eerie/#m2)

### In the lessons

A favourite word in ghost stories and spooky settings: empty houses, fog, silence, owls at night. It builds suspense for the reader. Phrases: eerie silence, eerie feeling, eerie glow, eerily quiet.

### Examples

- An eerie silence filled the old house. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eerie/#x1)
- The fog gave the graveyard an eerie look. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eerie/#x2)
- We heard an eerie howl in the night. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eerie/#x3)
- The empty school felt eerie in the holidays. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eerie/#x4)
- The moon cast an eerie glow over the lake. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eerie/#x5)
- The two drawings were eerily similar. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eerie/#x6)
- There was something eerie about the abandoned fairground. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eerie/#x7)
- At first he thought this eerie, but soon concluded rightly that the clock had run down. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eerie/#x8)

### Note

Spelling: eerie (not «eery» in standard use; and not Lake Erie, which sounds the same). Eerie is quiet-scary, not loud-scary. Eerier, eeriest.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «eerie» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eerie/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«eerie» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/eerie.html) on Mova free.