Spookish

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

(informal) Frightening or unnerving in the manner of something eerie or supernatural; spooky..

Definitions by Sense

1. (informal) Frightening or unnerving in the manner of something eerie or supernatural; spooky.
2. (informal, often of a horse or other animal) Easily startled, frightened, or unnerved.

Example Sentences

I hope we find some nicer spot than this. This looks so lonely and spookish.

Religion is everywhere a gauge of respectability. . . . The right to participate, however humbly, in His august and transcendental operations offers a powerful satisfaction to the will to power; the same privilege, on a smaller scale, is what takes hordes of human blanks into the Freemasons and other such spookish amalgamations of nonentities.

In those moments thus spent in composing myself for sleep, I sometimes wondered in the last human occupant of the room were not a dead one. I was senselessly spookish about such things.

As a lesson horse she needs to gain confidence in her rider, or can become spookish over the jumps, dodging out of them.

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