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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Peculiarly unsettling, as if of supernatural origin or nature; eerie. See Synonyms at weird.
  2. adj. So keen and perceptive as to seem preternatural.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Not canny, in any sense.
  2. Eery; weird; mysterious; apparently not of this world; hence, noting one supposed to possess preternatural powers.
  3. Severe, as a fall or blow.


  1. adj. strange, and mysteriously unsettling (as if supernatural); weird
  2. adj. Careless.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Not canny; unsafe; strange; weird; ghostly.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. suggesting the operation of supernatural influences
  2. adj. surpassing the ordinary or normal


  1. From un- +‎ canny; thus “beyond one′s ken,” or outside one′s familiar knowledge or perceptions. (Wiktionary)
  2. un-1 + canny, fortunate, safe (obsolete). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)


  • “The Polar Express, even before the term uncanny valley was coined in 1970, Disney was giving us the willies with lifelike machines.”

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  • “FREED: It's not clear why the mismatch happened, but in trying to explain it, the coroner pointed to what he called the uncanny resemblance between the women, including body type, hair color and facial features.”

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  • “This interest in common things was gratifying to Aunt Charlotte, who distrusted and discouraged his dwelling on what she called the uncanny side of life; but she was anxious, at the same time, that he should not overtax his strength, and gave secret orders to Lubin to see that the young master did not allow his ardour to outrun the dictates of discretion.”

    Austin and His Friends

  • “The thing was not quite what we call uncanny; the people were so honest, both of them, that the morbid character of like situations was wanting.”

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  • “I did not know the story of "St. Christopher the Dog-Head" or Ratramnus 'reply to Rimbert when I wrote the original "Eifelheim," lo these many years ago; but there is a certain uncanny similarity in the stories.”

    August 4th, 2009

  • “And an excerpt from the Faren Miller review says: The situation seems less grim than exciting to a pair of girls who barely manage to hide their lesbianism, their anti-government sentiments, and certain uncanny capabilities (for whatever the leaders wish to think, whatever the laws decree, magic does exist here).”

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  • PossibleUnderscore “A kind of cross between Helen Traubel and Martha Raye an uncanny amalgam of Joan Sutherland and Phyllis Diller.�?
    -James McCourt
    Jul 29, 2009

  • maesepedro especially pleasing in the context of this list since uncanny doesn't seem to have much to do with canny Feb 13, 2008


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