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   Un·can·ny

   /ˌənˈkanē/

   

   adjective

   • 1. strange or mysterious, especially in an unsettling way: "an uncanny feeling that she was being watched" Similar eerieunnaturalpreternaturalsupernaturalunearthlyotherworldlyunrealghostlymysteriousstrangeabnormaloddcuriousqueerweirdbizarrefreakisheldritchinformal:creepyspookyfreakyrumbizarrostrikingremarkableextraordinaryout of the ordinaryout of the wayunusualexceptionalastoundingastonishingincredibleconspicuousnoteworthynotableconsiderabledistinctivearrestingOpposite ordinarynormalunremarkablerun-of-the-mill

   Word Origin late 16th century (originally Scots in the sense ‘relating to the occult, malicious’): from un-1 ‘not’ + canny.

   Derivatives

   • 1. uncanniness noun

   Scrabble Points: 12

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