uncanny

  • (s) 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
    eldritch, weird, unearthly,
  • (s) surpassing the ordinary or normal
    • Beyond his preternatural affability there is some acid and some steel" - George Will
    • his uncanny sense of direction
    preternatural,

Synonyms

eldritch weird unearthly preternatural

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