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uncanny

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uncanny in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  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
    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"
    preternatural  uncanny 
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