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# uncanny

adjective (uncannier, uncanniest)

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

## Everyday

Uncanny means strange in a spooky way, as if not quite natural. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uncanny/#m1)

### In the lessons

in tales, an eerie hour, a graveyard, or a skill that seems more than human

### Examples

- The house was uncannily quiet. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uncanny/#x1)
- At an uncanny hour he passed the graveyard. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uncanny/#x2)
- The cat had an uncanny sense of where the mouse would run. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uncanny/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

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