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Eeriest vs Veriest - What's the difference?

eeriest | veriest |

As adjectives the difference between eeriest and veriest

is that eeriest is (eerie) while veriest is (very); truest, most.

eeriest

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (eerie)

    • 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

    veriest

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (very); truest, most
  • *
    • Though in the course of his continual voyagings Ahab must often before have noticed a similar sight, yet, to any monomaniac man, the veriest trifles capriciously carry meanings.
  • *
    • If it had come to crawling before Mr. Kurtz, he crawled as much as the veriest savage of them all.
  • * 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.81:
    • He wheeled away down the narrow sandy street like the veriest derelict.

    Synonyms

    * (truest) (l), (l)

    Anagrams

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