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uncanny 音标拼音: [ənk'æni] a. 怪诞的,可怕的,离奇的,神秘的 怪诞的,可怕的,离奇的,神秘的 uncanny adj 1: suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; " an eldritch screech"; " the three weird sisters"; " stumps... had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures"- John Galsworthy; " an unearthly light"; " he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"- Henry Kingsley [ synonym: { eldritch}, { weird}, { uncanny}, { unearthly}] 2: surpassing the ordinary or normal; " Beyond his preternatural affability there is some acid and some steel" - George Will; " his uncanny sense of direction" [ synonym: { preternatural}, { uncanny}] Uncanny \ Un* can" ny\, a. Not canny; unsafe; strange; weird; ghostly. -- Sir W. Scott. -- { Un* can" ni* ness}, n. -- G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster] 38 Moby Thesaurus words for " uncanny": 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
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