Usually means: Eerie familiarity in the strange.
Definitions Related words Phrases Mentions Lyrics History Colors (New!)
We found 28 dictionaries that define the word uncanny:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. uncanny: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. uncanny: Merriam-Webster
  3. uncanny: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. uncanny: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. uncanny: Collins English Dictionary
  6. uncanny: Vocabulary.com
  7. Uncanny, uncanny: Wordnik
  8. uncanny: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. uncanny: Wiktionary
  10. uncanny: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. uncanny: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. uncanny: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. uncanny: Dictionary.com
  14. uncanny: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. uncanny: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Uncanny (Freud), The Uncanny (film), The Uncanny, Uncanny (disambiguation), Uncanny (film), Uncanny (short story collection), Uncanny: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Uncanny: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. uncanny: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. uncanny: Rhymezone
  20. uncanny: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. uncanny: FreeDictionary.org
  22. uncanny: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. uncanny: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. uncanny: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. uncanny: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. uncanny: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See uncannily as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
)
American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Strange, and mysteriously unsettling (as if supernatural); weird.
adjective:  (UK dialectal) Careless.
noun:  (psychology, psychoanalysis, Freud) Something that is simultaneously familiar and strange, typically leading to feelings of discomfort.

Similar:

Opposite:

Types:

Phrases:

Colors:
    pale green,     eerie black,     ghost white,     phantom gray,     twilight lavender, more...



Word origin

Words similar to uncanny

Usage examples for uncanny

Idioms related to uncanny

Wikipedia articles (New!)

Popular adjectives describing uncanny

Popular nouns described by uncanny

Words that often appear near uncanny

Rhymes of uncanny

Invented words related to uncanny

Similar:

Opposite:

Types:

Phrases:

Colors:
    pale green,     eerie black,     ghost white,     phantom gray,     twilight lavender, more...



Writing poetry or lyrics? You can find related words that match a given meter.
This feature is permanently available from the "Related words" tab and from the Thesaurus.





Home   Reverse Dictionary / Thesaurus   Datamuse   Word games   Spruce   Feedback   Dark mode   Random word   Help


Color thesaurus

Use OneLook to find colors for words and words for colors

See an example

Literary notes

Use OneLook to learn how words are used by great writers

See an example

Word games

Try our innovative vocabulary games

Play Now

Read the latest OneLook newsletter issue: Threepeat Redux