Uncanny \Un*can"ny\, a.
Not canny; unsafe; strange; weird; ghostly. --Sir W. Scott.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
uncanny
adj 1: suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; "an
eldritch screech"; "the three weird sisters";
"stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous
creatures"- John Galsworthy; "an unearthly light"; "he
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew
piercing the din"- Henry Kingsley [syn: eldritch, weird,
unearthly]
2: beyond what is natural; "his uncanny sense of direction";
(`unco' is chiefly Scottish) [syn: unco]
WordNet (r) 2.0
38 Moby Thesaurus words for "uncanny":
awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing, bizarre, blue, cadaverous,
corpselike, creepy, deadly, deathlike, deathly, deathly pale,
eerie, eldritch, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, grisly, gruesome,
haggard, livid, lurid, macabre, mortuary, mysterious, numinous,
pale, spookish, spooky, superhuman, supernormal, unco, uncolike,
unearthly, unnatural, wan, weird
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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