uncanny
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美[?n'k?ni]
英英釋意
- 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
- 2. beyond what is natural;
- "his uncanny sense of direction"; (`unco' is chiefly Scottish)
