Spookish

Quick meaning: Spookish is an adjective meaning (informal) Frightening or unnerving in the manner of something eerie or supernatural; spooky.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (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.

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

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.

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.

Synonyms for spookish

Depending on context, synonyms include skittish.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include spooky, spooksome, ghostly, ooky-spooky, spooktastic, scary.

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