01 a. Serving to inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts; wild; weird; as, eerie stories.
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Serving to inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts; wild; weird; as, eerie stories.“She whose elfin prancer springs By night to eery warblings.” — Tennyson.
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Affected with fear; affrighted.