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Adjective uncanny has 2 senses
- eldritch, weird, uncanny, unearthly - suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; "an eldritch screech"; "the three weird sisters"; "stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures"- John Galsworthy; "an unearthly light"; "he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"- Henry Kingsley
Antonym: natural (indirect, via supernatural)
- uncanny, unco - beyond what is natural; "his uncanny sense of direction"; (`unco' is chiefly Scottish)
Antonym: natural (indirect, via unnatural)
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