Eerie vs Mysterious - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between eerie and mysterious

is that eerie is strange, weird, fear-inspiring while mysterious is of unknown origin.

* eery

(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 .

* See also * creepy, spooky

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

(en adjective)

Of unknown origin.

He received a mysterious phone call this morning.

Having unknown qualities.

Our boss is a mysterious man who hardly ever meets with us.

Difficult to understand.

Why he left without saying goodbye is quite mysterious .

Deliberately evasive or enigmatic.

Stop being mysterious and just tell me what you want.

* mysteriously * mysteriousness