strange and difficult to explain:
I had an uncanny feeling I was being watched. * It was uncanny really, almost as if she knew what I was thinking. * He has an uncanny knack of being able to see immediately where the problem lies.
uncannily adverb:
He looked uncannily like someone I knew.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for uncanny is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is uncanny a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, uncanny is tagged as adjective.
Does uncanny appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — uncanny appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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