eery (Meaning)

Wordnet

eery (s)

inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening

Webster

eery (a.)

Serving to inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts; wild; weird; as, eerie stories.

Affected with fear; affrighted.

eery Sentence Examples

  1. The abandoned house stood there, eerily silent, its windows boarded up.
  2. The eery silence of the forest was shattered by the sudden cry of an owl.
  3. The foggy night cast an eery glow on the old graveyard.
  4. She felt an eery sense of foreboding as she walked through the dark alleyway.
  5. The old mansion had an eery aura about it, as if it held secrets from the past.
  6. The eery sound of wind whistling through the trees sent chills down her spine.
  7. The flickering candlelight cast eery shadows on the walls of the room.
  8. The eery beauty of the winter landscape was both captivating and unsettling.
  9. The eery stillness of the air was broken by the distant sound of thunder.
  10. The eery wail of the siren echoed through the night, warning of impending danger.

FAQs About the word eery

inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frighteningServing to inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts; wild; weird; as, eerie stories., Affected with fear;

haunting, weird,creepy, odd,spooky, unearthly, ghostly, uncanny, terrifying, unusual

usual,normal, ordinary, routine, routine, common, ordinary, natural, commonplace, commonplace

The abandoned house stood there, eerily silent, its windows boarded up.

The eery silence of the forest was shattered by the sudden cry of an owl.

The foggy night cast an eery glow on the old graveyard.

She felt an eery sense of foreboding as she walked through the dark alleyway.