Definition of "eerie"
eerie
adjective
comparative eerier, superlative eeriest
Strange, weird, fear-inspiring, especially in a shadowy or mysterious way.
Quotations
I was working in the lab late one nightWhen my eyes beheld an eerie sightFor my monster, from his slab, began to riseAnd suddenly, to my surpriseHe did the MashHe did the Monster Mash.
1962, “Monster Mash”, Bobby "Boris" Pickett and Lenny Capizzi (lyrics), performed by Bobby (Boris) Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers
noun
plural eeries
Quotations
Of the heavenly azure, and of the eeries suspended on the highest rocks they had indeed heard something, but they had never seen them, and in spite of their wishes it was no longer the old keen home-sickness of the old eagles.
1912 December, Joseph Stutzin, “The Children of the Eagle”, in Israel Goldberg, transl., The Maccabæan: A Magazine of Jewish Life and Letters, volume 22, number 6, page 184
What was it that had driven them forth from their wooded mountain eeries to wait and watch for that one short moment, when the figure of an old man clad in a plain black military tunic would become visible at the saloon-window of a crawling train, to watch a wrinkled hand wave a fleeting greeting?
1914, Walter Bloem, The Iron Year, page 78
Quotations
Just a couple of eeries looking to get squamous, to swipe a little snatch of wholesome fun from the funktacular funerary fundament belonging to the Big Boss, a hit big enough to drop our brains out the bottoms of our various appendages and forget the essential, unalterable, sanity-shearing truth of our watery and unfleeling cosmos: R'lyeh sucks.
2017 September/October, Catherynne M. Valente, “Down and Out in R'lyeh”, in Uncanny Magazine, number 18, page 41