uncanny English

Meaning uncanny meaning

What does uncanny mean?

uncanny

— adjective (= eldritch, weird, unearthly) 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

— adjective (= preternatural) surpassing the ordinary or normal Beyond his preternatural affability there is some acid and some steel — George Will his uncanny sense of direction

Synonyms uncanny synonyms

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uncanny English » English

weird

eerie

strange

unearthly

mysterious

spooky

occult

unusual

supernatural

ghostly

eldritch

bizarre

unnatural

preternatural

ominous

mystical

inexplicable

weirdsome

unsafe

unheimlich

ungodly

unexplained

unexplainable

unexcused

undecomposable

unco

unanalyzable

unaccountable

tricky

treacherous

tough

secret

scary

odd

mystifying

mystic

monstrous

monster

marvelous

jinxed

incautious

hinky

haunted

goblin

ghastly

freakish

extraordinary

enigmatic

eery

dangerous

Examples uncanny examples

How do I use uncanny in a sentence?

Simple sentences

This incident is quite uncanny.

In her latest works she lets the uncanny swing like a grotesque pendulum from the humorous into homelike cosiness and back again.

She bears an uncanny resemblance to Marilyn Monroe.

The robot was so lifelike that it was uncanny.

The resemblance is uncanny.

The resemblance between these two men is uncanny.

Tom bears an uncanny resemblance to Abraham Lincoln.

Movie subtitles

He's uncanny.

But. now that I am here, there something uncanny and weird about everything.

Did you? - It's uncanny.

It's uncanny.

She's got an uncanny talent for getting under my skin.

But the uncanny resemblance?

Yes, the resemblance is quite uncanny.

Uncanny.

Uncle Fester has an uncanny sense about these things.

Uncanny?

It's of no consequence, Sire. It's just that you bear an uncanny resemblance to someone we both know.

My friends believe I paid such an enormous sum for it because of its uncanny resemblance to my late wife.

So I walked home. Only don't you think it's a little uncanny..

Your judgment of distance is uncanny, Thorndike.

Oh, it's so good, it's uncanny.

You know, Watson, there's something uncanny about it.

His face, his voice, his manner. It's uncanny.

Reincarnation. It accounts for some of our more uncanny experiences.

You know, I frighten myself sometimes, my instincts are so uncanny.

Herman, sometimes I think you're absolutely uncanny.

It's just that you bear an uncanny resemblance to someone we both know.

It's uncanny the way he gets into a man's mind.

You know, it's uncanny, it's as if she knows you.

Katczinsky. He's uncanny.

You know, it's uncanny.

You'll never guess who this is. Well, that's uncanny.

Don't you see any divination there nor uncanny gift.

These robots are uncanny.

It's uncanny, isn't it?

Still, that he should have found us, it's uncanny.

It's pretty uncanny, huh?

It's uncanny, to dream that same awful dream, night after night.

News and current affairs

President George W. Bush has an uncanny ability not to see the big message.

It's uncanny.

Many commercially available computer programs can be set to mimic the styles of top grandmasters to an extent that is almost uncanny.

After all, as Joseph Schumpeter famously observed, market-based systems have long had an uncanny knack for self-healing.

What is uncanny about the current debate about Afghanistan is the degree to which it displays continuity with the Vietnam debates, and the Obama administration knows it.

It's uncanny. But let's be clear about the nature of that light.

Moreover, the US and Europe have already used large doses of fiscal stimulus, which shares an uncanny similarity to antibiotics.

As Maggie McMillan of the International Food Policy Research Institute has shown, there is an uncanny negative correlation across individual manufacturing industries between employment changes in China and the US.

Since the days of Deng, China has had an uncanny ability to rise to the occasion and meet its challenges head on.