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Eerie vs Disturbing - What's the difference?

eerie | disturbing |

As adjectives the difference between eerie and disturbing

is that eerie is strange, weird, fear-inspiring while disturbing is causing distress or worry; upsetting or unsettling.

As a verb disturbing is

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eerie

English

Alternative forms

* eery

Adjective

(er)
  • strange, weird, fear-inspiring.
    • The eerie sounds seemed to come from the graveyard after midnight.
  • (Scotland) fearful, timid.
  • * 1883 , George MacDonald, Donal Grant
    • She began to feel eerie .

    Synonyms

    * See also * creepy, spooky

    Derived terms

    * eerily (adverb) * eeriness (noun) * eerisome

    disturbing

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing distress or worry; upsetting or unsettling.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing .}}

    Verb

    (head)