Eeriest vs Aeriest - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between eeriest and aeriest

is that eeriest is superlative of eerie while aeriest is superlative of aery.

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* eery

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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

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(poetic) aerial; ethereal; incorporeal; visionary.

* 1667 , '': Book XI, in 1801, Henry John Todd (editor), ''The Poetical Works of John Milton , Volume 3, page 349,

The bird of Jove, ?toop'd from his aery tour, / Two birds of gaye?t plume before him drove ;

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