dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/eer_MW.json

{
  "eerie":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": affected with fright : scared":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "The flames cast an eerie glow.",
      "a land of eerie beauty",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Though his trial and death bore eerie parallels to that of Hugh Despenser, Mortimer was at least spared the whole castration/disembowelment/beheading thing. \u2014 Anne Th\u00e9riault, Longreads , 21 June 2022",
      "All these works \u2014 even the obsessive and eerie ones \u2014 feel somehow exultant. \u2014 Cate Mcquaid, BostonGlobe.com , 21 June 2022",
      "The dancers strike standing or seated attitudes and walk away from each other, presenting a situation witty, eerie and pleasantly puzzling. \u2014 Robert Greskovic, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
      "The documentary has an eerie and artificial beauty that echos that of Hanson\u2019s creation, with her increasingly soft skin and her increasingly expressive features. \u2014 Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 11 June 2022",
      "Cruise\u2019s delicate vocals provided a dreamy and eerie counterpoint to the lush orchestrations of Angelo Badalamenti, the composer who was a chief collaborator of film director David Lynch. \u2014 Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Los Angeles Times , 10 June 2022",
      "The experience is involving, enveloping and a bit eerie . \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Apr. 2022",
      "The city is eerie and desolate, its downtown ravaged by missiles that have struck around its vast central square. \u2014 Loveday Morris And Anastacia Galouchka, Anchorage Daily News , 22 Mar. 2022",
      "Even a safely distant view such as Johan Christian Clausen Dahl\u2019s Neapolitan Coast with Vesuvius in Eruption, done in 1820, is eerie and unsettling. \u2014 Brian T. Allen, National Review , 19 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English (northern dialect) eri":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ir-\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for eerie weird , eerie , uncanny mean mysteriously strange or fantastic. weird may imply an unearthly or supernatural strangeness or it may stress peculiarity or oddness. weird creatures from another world eerie suggests an uneasy or fearful consciousness that mysterious and malign powers are at work. an eerie calm preceded the bombing raid uncanny implies disquieting strangeness or mysteriousness. an uncanny resemblance between total strangers",
    "synonyms":[
      "creepy",
      "haunting",
      "spookish",
      "spooky",
      "uncanny",
      "unearthly",
      "weird"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-120442",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "eerily":{
    "type":[
      "adverb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": in a strange and eerie manner : mysteriously , weirdly":[
        "The museum had closed for the night and it was eerily still.",
        "\u2014 Brian Selznick",
        "In a case eerily similar to the Vicki Hoskinson murder, an eleven-year-old girl in Louisiana disappeared while riding her bicycle.",
        "\u2014 David Fisher"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ir-\u0259-l\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1847, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-150624"
  },
  "eery":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": affected with fright : scared":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ir-\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "creepy",
      "haunting",
      "spookish",
      "spooky",
      "uncanny",
      "unearthly",
      "weird"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for eerie weird , eerie , uncanny mean mysteriously strange or fantastic. weird may imply an unearthly or supernatural strangeness or it may stress peculiarity or oddness. weird creatures from another world eerie suggests an uneasy or fearful consciousness that mysterious and malign powers are at work. an eerie calm preceded the bombing raid uncanny implies disquieting strangeness or mysteriousness. an uncanny resemblance between total strangers",
    "examples":[
      "The flames cast an eerie glow.",
      "a land of eerie beauty",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Though his trial and death bore eerie parallels to that of Hugh Despenser, Mortimer was at least spared the whole castration/disembowelment/beheading thing. \u2014 Anne Th\u00e9riault, Longreads , 21 June 2022",
      "All these works \u2014 even the obsessive and eerie ones \u2014 feel somehow exultant. \u2014 Cate Mcquaid, BostonGlobe.com , 21 June 2022",
      "The dancers strike standing or seated attitudes and walk away from each other, presenting a situation witty, eerie and pleasantly puzzling. \u2014 Robert Greskovic, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
      "The documentary has an eerie and artificial beauty that echos that of Hanson\u2019s creation, with her increasingly soft skin and her increasingly expressive features. \u2014 Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 11 June 2022",
      "Cruise\u2019s delicate vocals provided a dreamy and eerie counterpoint to the lush orchestrations of Angelo Badalamenti, the composer who was a chief collaborator of film director David Lynch. \u2014 Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Los Angeles Times , 10 June 2022",
      "The experience is involving, enveloping and a bit eerie . \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Apr. 2022",
      "The city is eerie and desolate, its downtown ravaged by missiles that have struck around its vast central square. \u2014 Loveday Morris And Anastacia Galouchka, Anchorage Daily News , 22 Mar. 2022",
      "Even a safely distant view such as Johan Christian Clausen Dahl\u2019s Neapolitan Coast with Vesuvius in Eruption, done in 1820, is eerie and unsettling. \u2014 Brian T. Allen, National Review , 19 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English (northern dialect) eri":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-190007"
  }
}