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All uncanny synonyms

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adj uncanny

  • mysterious — full of, characterized by, or involving mystery: a mysterious occurrence.
  • freaker — any abnormal phenomenon or product or unusual object; anomaly; aberration.
  • ghastly — shockingly frightful or dreadful; horrible: a ghastly murder.
  • eerie — uncanny, so as to inspire superstitious fear; weird: an eerie midnight howl.
  • grody — repulsive; disgusting; nauseating.
  • hyperphysical — being above or beyond the physical; immaterial; supernatural.
  • apparitional — of or relating to an apparition or apparitions; ghostly, spectral
  • mystifying — to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
  • monstrous — frightful or hideous, especially in appearance; extremely ugly.
  • avantgarde — the advance group in any field, especially in the visual, literary, or musical arts, whose works are characterized chiefly by unorthodox and experimental methods.
  • ghostly — of, characteristic of, or resembling a ghost; phantasmal; spectral.
  • fly ball — a ball that is batted up into the air.
  • crawly — feeling or causing a sensation like creatures crawling on one's skin
  • bionic — In science fiction books or films, a bionic person is someone who has special powers, such as being exceptionally strong or having exceptionally good sight, because parts of their body have been replaced by electronic machinery.
  • grotesque — odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre.
  • fairier — (in folklore) one of a class of supernatural beings, generally conceived as having a diminutive human form and possessing magical powers with which they intervene in human affairs.
  • demoniac — of, like, or suggestive of a demon; demonic
  • magical — produced by or as if by magic: The change in the appearance of the room was magical.
  • alchemistic — a form of chemistry and speculative philosophy practiced in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concerned principally with discovering methods for transmuting baser metals into gold and with finding a universal solvent and an elixir of life.
  • astrological — the study that assumes and attempts to interpret the influence of the heavenly bodies on human affairs.
  • miscreated — miscreated.
  • necromantic — a method of divination through alleged communication with the dead; black art.

adjective uncanny

  • creepy — If you say that something or someone is creepy, you mean they make you feel very nervous or frightened.
  • ensorcelled — Simple past tense and past participle of ensorcell.
  • inhuman — lacking qualities of sympathy, pity, warmth, compassion, or the like; cruel; brutal: an inhuman master.
  • weird — involving or suggesting the supernatural; unearthly or uncanny: a weird sound; weird lights.
  • extrasensory — Of or relating to extrasensory perception.
  • witching — a person, now especially a woman, who professes or is supposed to practice magic or sorcery; a sorceress. Compare warlock.
  • witchlike — Resembling a witch or some aspect of one.
  • enigmatical — Pertaining to an enigma.
  • wizardly — of, like, or befitting a wizard.
  • corpselike — Resembling a corpse.
  • otherworldly — of, relating to, or devoted to another world, as the world of imagination or the world to come.
  • queer — strange or odd from a conventional viewpoint; unusually different; singular: a queer notion of justice.
  • wraithlike — an apparition of a living person supposed to portend his or her death.
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