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# uncanny

«uncanny» in Mova's school dictionary: **strange in a spooky way, as if not quite natural** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (uncannier, uncanniest)

### meaning for a pupil

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

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uncanny/#x1)
- At an uncanny hour he passed the graveyard. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uncanny/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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