Uncanny

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Adjective

Uncanny (comparative uncannier, superlative uncanniest)

  1. strange, and mysteriously unsettling (as if supernatural); weird
  2. A Freudian concept of an instance where something can be familiar, yet foreign at the same time, often being uncomfortably strange.

Adverbs for Uncanny

alarmingly; peculiarly; weirdly; curiously; strangely; inexplicably; unaccountably; harrowingly; oppressively; mysteriously; viciously; vaguely; unreasonably; hauntingly; gloomily; indefinably; obscurely; inescapably; absurdly; inscrutably; eerily.

Thesaurus

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