eerie
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 →
2) Eerily means strangely, as in eerily quiet or eerily similar. tree →
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 →
- The fog gave the graveyard an eerie look. tree →
- We heard an eerie howl in the night. tree →
- The empty school felt eerie in the holidays. tree →
- The moon cast an eerie glow over the lake. tree →
- The two drawings were eerily similar. tree →
- There was something eerie about the abandoned fairground. tree →
- At first he thought this eerie, but soon concluded rightly that the clock had run down. tree →
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, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.