Definitions for uncanny

uncanny un·can·ny

Spelling: [uhn-kan-ee]
IPA: /ʌnˈkæn i/

Uncanny is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in uncanny (acnnnuy).

Definitions for uncanny

adjective

  1. having or seeming to have a supernatural or inexplicable basis; beyond the ordinary or normal; extraordinary:
  2. mysterious; arousing superstitious fear or dread; uncomfortably strange:

Origin of uncanny

First recorded in 1590-1600; un-1 + canny

Examples for uncanny

For my part, grim and uncanny as he looked, I was glad to see him.

And from the side, with the lips and ears elongated, the resemblance is uncanny.

This knowledge, with the dream, was to him an uncanny thing.

Everything one says and does seems to turn in one's mouth—it's—it's uncanny.

In an uncanny way, that describes the precise definition of the hipster, when the term first appeared in the American vocabulary.

The silence of it discomfited him beyond measure; it was, in a word, uncanny.

Not only were his eyes averted from mine, but they were glassed to an uncanny degree.

Almost nothing has been touched since the fall of the USSR in 1991, providing an uncanny glimpse behind the Iron Curtain.

Another had an uncanny ability to land paving jobs in Southern Nevada.

Archaeologists have an uncanny ability to ignore the discomforts and channel the time period and the people they're studying.

Word Value for uncanny
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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