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Answer : EERIE
eerie, eery – a
inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening
SYNONYMS
creepy, haunting, spookish, spooky, uncanny, unearthly, weird
SENTENCE EXAMPLES
“The flames cast an eerie glow.”
“a land of eerie beauty”
“Laughter disappeared, an eerie silence taking its place.”
ETYMOLOGY
eerie (adj.)
also eery, c. 1300, “timid, affected by superstitious fear,” north England and Scottish variant of Old English earg “cowardly, fearful, wretched; slow, indolent, useless,” from Proto-Germanic *arh- (source also of Old Frisian erg “evil, bad,” Middle Dutch arch “bad,” Dutch arg, Old High German arg “cowardly, worthless,” German arg “bad, wicked,” Old Norse argr “unmanly, voluptuous,” Swedish arg “malicious”). Sense of “causing fear because of strangeness” is first attested 1792. Finnish arka “cowardly” is a Germanic loan-word.
More Clues
- TROPE Evil clown in a horror film,
- ESCAPE Romance fiction or horror films,
- CULT HIT “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,”
- PENNY WISE Evil clown in the 1986 Stephen King horror novel It, played on screen by Bill Skarsgard in 2017
- EERIE Like the background music in a horror movie
- STUNT Fall in a film,
- GENIE Kazaam in a 1996 film,
- EXTRA Soldier in a war film,
- TIE IN Video game based on a film,
- GO OUT Take a date to a movie,
- OATER Gene Autry film,
- INDIE Type of film,
- INEPT Awkward writer turning in a horror novel
- OLDIE Black-and-white film,
- AIRED Ran a rerun movie,
- CAMEO Alfred Hitchcock in his own movie,
- SPOOF “Scary Movie,”
- LEMUR King Julien of the “Madagascar” films,
- CULTS Fans of various offbeat films,
- ELM Street in a horror film
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