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uncanny(dictionary)

uncanny (iou)



uncanny adjective. L16.
[from UN-1 + CANNY adjective.]
Of, pertaining to, or associated with the supernatural or occult; baleful, malignant; malicious. Orig. Scot. L16.
Careless, incautious. Scot. & north. M17.
Unpleasantly severe or hard. Scot. M18.
Unreliable, untrustworthy; dangerous, unsafe. Scot. & north. L18.
Seemingly supernatural; uncomfortably strange or unfamiliar, weird; of an unsettling accuracy, intensity, etc. M19.
N. Annan Stephen had such uncanny powers of sympathy. M. Ignatieff The quiet was uncanny; water running in a gutter..but no cars, no voices.
uncannily adverb E19.
uncanniness noun M19.