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uncanny::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | preternatural |
his uncanny sense of direction.
Examples of uncanny
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Until recently, CEO Reed Hastings had always seemed to possess an uncanny touch.
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The interior has been put together with an uncanny sense of old-fashioned style.
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There's uncanny timing blocking shots, and he's real good protecting the basket.
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It was an uncanny match for her gleaming gold shoes, as she immediately noticed.
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Kerrymen bear an uncanny resemblance to that endangered species, the Kiwi bloke.
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Denis became a GP and Marna often displayed uncanny powers of medical diagnosis.
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Then, every week with uncanny regularity, gentle showers brushed the new shoots.
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There's an uncanny resemblance to a fast-food meal, albeit a well-prepared one.
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He's a great locker-room leader with an uncanny ability for analyzing the game.
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- Eldritch: 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
- Preternatural: surpassing the ordinary or normal; "Beyond his preternatural affability there is some acid and some steel" - George Will; "his uncanny sense of direction"
- (uncannily) in an uncanny manner; "uncannily human robots"
- The Uncanny (Ger. Das Unheimliche -- literally, "un-home-ly") is a Freudian concept of an instance where something can be familiar, yet foreign at the same time, resulting in a feeling of it being uncomfortably strange. (See Uncanny valley)
- The Uncanny is one Horror Movie, starring: Peter Cushing.
- Peculiarly unsettling as if supernatural in nature - Jason Terry is an uncanny shooter from three.
- Mysterious; supernatural
