uncanny
adjective/ʌnˈkæni/
/ʌnˈkæni/
- strange and difficult to explain synonym weird
- 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.
- She bore a quite uncanny resemblance to my Auntie Elsie.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryUncanny is used with these nouns:- ability
- accuracy
- knack
- …
Word Originlate 16th cent. (originally Scots in the sense ‘relating to the occult, malicious’): from un- ‘not’ + canny.
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