Eeriest vs Veriest - What's the difference?
eeriest | veriest |
(eerie)
strange, weird, fear-inspiring.
(Scotland) fearful, timid.
* 1883 , George MacDonald, Donal Grant
(very); truest, most
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* 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.81:
As adjectives the difference between eeriest and veriest
is that eeriest is (eerie) while veriest is (very); truest, most.eeriest
English
Adjective
(head)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) * eerisomeveriest
English
Adjective
(head)- 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.
- He wheeled away down the narrow sandy street like the veriest derelict.