Eerie vs Spookish - What's the difference?
eerie | spookish |
strange, weird, fear-inspiring.
(Scotland) fearful, timid.
* 1883 , George MacDonald, Donal Grant
(informal) Frightening or unnerving in the manner of something eerie or supernatural; spooky.
* 1914 , , Dave Porter in the Gold Fields , ch. 22:
* 1930 , , Treatise on the Gods (2006 edition), ISBN 9780801885365,
(informal, often of a horse or other animal) Easily startled, frightened, or unnerved.
* 1908 , Sylvester Barbour, Reminiscences (2009 edition), ISBN 9781115996655,
* 2010 , "
As adjectives the difference between eerie and spookish
is that eerie is strange, weird, fear-inspiring while spookish is (informal) frightening or unnerving in the manner of something eerie or supernatural; spooky.eerie
English
Alternative forms
* eeryAdjective
(er)- The eerie sounds seemed to come from the graveyard after midnight.
- She began to feel eerie .
Synonyms
* See also * creepy, spookyDerived terms
* eerily (adverb) * eeriness (noun) * eerisomespookish
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I hope we find some nicer spot than this. This looks so lonely and spookish .
pp. 174-5:
- Religion is everywhere a gauge of respectability. . . . The right to participate, however humbly, in His august and transcendental operations offers a powerful satisfaction to the will to power; the same privilege, on a smaller scale, is what takes hordes of human blanks into the Freemasons and other such spookish amalgamations of nonentities.
p. 26:
- In those moments thus spent in composing myself for sleep, I sometimes wondered in the last human occupant of the room were not a dead one. I was senselessly spookish about such things.
Sarah $3000", isoldmyhorse.com (retrieved 13 July 2010):
- As a lesson horse she needs to gain confidence in her rider, or can become spookish over the jumps, dodging out of them.