slovo | definícia |
uncanny (mass) | uncanny
- tajomný |
uncanny (encz) | uncanny,podivný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
uncanny (encz) | uncanny,tajemný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Uncanny (gcide) | Uncanny \Un*can"ny\, a.
Not canny; unsafe; strange; weird; ghostly. --Sir W. Scott.
-- Un*can"ni*ness, n. --G. Eliot.
[1913 Webster] |
uncanny (wn) | 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 [syn: 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" [syn: preternatural,
uncanny] |
| podobné slovo | definícia |
uncanny (mass) | uncanny
- tajomný |
uncanny (encz) | uncanny,podivný adj: Zdeněk Brožuncanny,tajemný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
uncanny (wn) | 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 [syn: 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" [syn: preternatural,
uncanny] |
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