Antonyms for eerie
ˈɪər ieerie

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1. eerieadjective

   Synonyms:
   creepy, spooky

2. eerieadjective

   strange, weird, fear-inspiring.

   The eerie sounds seemed to come from the graveyard after midnight.

   Synonyms:
   creepy, spooky

3. eerieadjective

   fearful, timid.

   Synonyms:
   spooky, creepy

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1. eerieadjective

   suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious

   "an eerie feeling of deja vu"

   Antonyms:
   natural, familiar

   Synonyms:
   eery

2. eerie, eeryadjective

   inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening

   "an uncomfortable and eerie stillness in the woods"; "an eerie midnight howl"

   Antonyms:
   familiar, natural

   Synonyms:
   eery

How to use eerie in a sentence?

1. Neighbor Moe Assiff:

   She just let out a hysterical scream. It was eerie, she was screaming about her kids: `My kids! The kids!,' grabbing her hair and trying to pull her hair out. The cops then ushered her down the road into a police cruiser.

2. Photographer Johnny Joo:

   It felt cold, rather empty and eerie – not so much a creepy eerie but a more interesting one, i knew Mike Tyson had once just hung out here and now I stood staring down everything that had been left behind.

3. Miley Cyrus:

   There's a lot of dimension to it, and actually it was while the devastation of Malibu was happening, and it was a really weird learning experience for me because I was so far from home and the show is already really dark, and it's already kind of eerie when you're there the whole time, but I learned a lot about Miley Cyrus, and I think I was able to use that and put that into it.

4. Douglas Hostadter:

   It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order -- and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.

5. Martin Garside:

   It is incredibly sad - I was literally two feet from this dead whale, it was both poignant and a bit eerie really - road traffic was thundering overhead on the busiest motorway in Britain and oblivious to all the people in the cars and lorries there was a 10-metre long beautiful whale floating dead beneath them.

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