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- Dictionaryuncanny/ʌnˈkani/
adjective
- 1. strange or mysterious, especially in an unsettling way: "an uncanny feeling that she was being watched" Similar Opposite
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UNCANNY definition: 1. strange or mysterious, often in a way that is slightly frightening: 2. strange or mysterious…. Learn more.
1. a. : seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie, mysterious. b. : being beyond what is normal or expected : suggesting superhuman or supernatural powers. an uncanny sense of direction. 2. chiefly Scotland : severe, punishing. uncannily.
UNCANNY meaning: 1. strange or mysterious, often in a way that is slightly frightening: 2. strange or mysterious…. Learn more.
If you describe something as uncanny, you mean that it is strange and difficult to explain. ...proudly holding his new baby, who bears an uncanny resemblance to him. I had this uncanny feeling that Alice was warning me.
Uncanny definition: having or seeming to have a supernatural or inexplicable basis; beyond the ordinary or normal; extraordinary. See examples of UNCANNY used in a sentence.
If something is uncanny, it is so mysterious, strange, or unfamiliar that it seems supernatural. If you hear strange music echoing through your attic, you might refer to it as positively uncanny.
1. having or seeming to have a supernatural or inexplicable basis; extraordinary: uncanny accuracy; an uncanny knack of spotting an opportunity. 2. mysterious; arousing fear or dread: Uncanny sounds filled the house. [1590–1600] un•can′ni•ly, adv. un•can′ni•ness, n. syn: See weird.
strange and impossible to explain: an uncanny resemblance. uncannily. adverb. (Definition of uncanny from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
/ʌnˈkæni/ strange and difficult to explain synonym weird. I had an uncanny feeling I was being watched. It was uncanny really, almost as if she knew what I was thinking. He has an uncanny knack of being able to see immediately where the problem lies. She bore a quite uncanny resemblance to my Auntie Elsie. Oxford Collocations Dictionary.
3 days ago · uncanny. (psychology, psychoanalysis, Freud) Something that is simultaneously familiar and strange, typically leading to feelings of discomfort. This uncontrollable possibility—the possibility of a certain loss of control—can, perhaps, explain why the remains a marginal notion even within psychoanalysis itself.
