Uncanny Definition
ŭn-kănē
uncanniest, uncannier
adjective
uncanniest, uncannier
Mysterious or impossible to explain, especially when causing uneasiness or astonishment.
American Heritage
Mysterious or unfamiliar, esp. in such a way as to frighten or make uneasy; preternaturally strange; eerie; weird.
Webster's New World
So remarkable, acute, etc. as to seem preternatural.
Uncanny shrewdness.
Webster's New World
(UK dialectal) Careless.
Wiktionary
(psychology, psychoanalysis, Freud) Simultaneously familiar and foreign, often uncomfortably so; translation of Freud's German unheimlich ("no longer secret").
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Other Word Forms of Uncanny
Adjective
Base Form:
uncanny
Comparative:
uncannier
Superlative:
uncanniestOrigin of Uncanny
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From un- +"Ž canny; thus “beyond one's ken," or outside one's familiar knowledge or perceptions.
From Wiktionary
un– canny fortunate, safe (obsolete)
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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