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Friday, May 22, 2009

Involving or suggesting the supernatural


ADJECTIVE:
1. unearthly or uncanny
2. fantastic; bizarre
3. Archaic. concerned with or controlling fate or destiny.
NOUN:
4. fate; destiny.



1. unnatural, preternatural. weird, eerie, unearthly, uncanny refer to that which is mysterious and apparently outside natural law.
Weird
refers to that which is suggestive of the fateful intervention of supernatural influences in human affairs: the weird adventures of a group lost in the jungle.
Eerie
refers to that which, by suggesting the ghostly, makes one's flesh creep: an eerie moaning from a deserted house.
Unearthly
refers to that which seems by its nature to belong to another world: an unearthly light that preceded the storm.
Uncanny
refers to that which is mysterious because of its apparent defiance of the laws established by experience: an uncanny ability to recall numbers.


1. natural.


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