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# eerie

«eerie» in Mova's school dictionary: **strange and frightening in a quiet, mysterious way…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (eerie, eerier, eeriest); adverb eerily

### meaning for a pupil

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

2) Eerily means strangely, as in eerily quiet or eerily similar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eerie/#m2)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eerie/#x1)
- The fog gave the graveyard an eerie look. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eerie/#x2)
- We heard an eerie howl in the night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eerie/#x3)
- The empty school felt eerie in the holidays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eerie/#x4)
- The moon cast an eerie glow over the lake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eerie/#x5)
- The two drawings were eerily similar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eerie/#x6)
- There was something eerie about the abandoned fairground. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «eerie» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eerie/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.