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adjective
- 1. weird and sinister or ghostly: "an eldritch screech"
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adjective. el· dritch ˈel-drich. : strange or unnatural especially in a way that inspires fear : weird, eerie. And the woman, whose voice had risen to a kind of eldritch singsong, turned with a skip, and was gone. Robert Louis Stevenson.
adjective. literary uk / ˈel.drɪtʃ / us / ˈel.drɪtʃ / Add to word list. strange and frightening: The fox let out an eldritch screech. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Strange, suspicious and unnatural. aberrantly. abnormally. add. freakishness. funnily enough idiom. ghostliness. ghoul. perversely. perversity. perverted. pervy. presence.
If you're reading a horror or fantasy story, you may see the word eldritch, which means uncanny, unearthly, and weird in a supernatural way. Anything a witch does is eldritch. Goblins and elves are eldritch creatures.
Eldritch definition: eerie; weird; spooky.. See examples of ELDRITCH used in a sentence.
Eldritch definition: Strange or unearthly; eerie.
Define eldritch. eldritch synonyms, eldritch pronunciation, eldritch translation, English dictionary definition of eldritch. adj. Strange or unearthly; eerie. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
adjective. literary us / ˈel.drɪtʃ / uk / ˈel.drɪtʃ / Add to word list. strange and frightening: The fox let out an eldritch screech. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Strange, suspicious and unnatural. aberrantly. abnormally. add. freakishness. funnily enough idiom. funny ha-ha or funny strange/weird? idiom. ghostliness. perversely.
adjective. eerie; weird; spooky. Also: eldrich, elritch. Most material © 2005, 1997, 1991 by Penguin Random House LLC. Modified entries © 2019 by Penguin Random House LLC and HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Word origin.
Jun 2, 2024 · eldritch (comparative more eldritch, superlative most eldritch) Unearthly, supernatural, eerie, preternatural.
Definition of eldritch adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
