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ˈspooky
/ ˈspuːkɪ /
adjective
- ghostly or eerie
a spooky house
- resembling or appropriate to a ghost
- easily frightened; highly strung
Derived Forms
- ˈspookiness, noun
- ˈspookily, adverb
Other Words From
- spooki·ly adverb
- spooki·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
It’s always interesting and well-directed, even when we’re fed horror cliches galore, from spooky dollhouses to things lurking in the basement.
Thanks to campfire tales and multimillion-dollar horror flicks, spooky notions can infiltrate our subconscious even without any real-life supernatural encounters.
In fact, “investors may be convinced that Halloween was purposely placed in October because the market’s actions can be so spooky,” CFRA’s Sam Stovall wrote in a recent note.
So much so that CFRA’s Stovall quips, “Investors may be convinced that Halloween was purposely placed in October because the market’s actions can be so spooky.”
For example, key to the quantum internet is entanglement — that “spooky action at a distance” in which particles are linked across time and space, and measuring the properties of one particle instantly reveals the other’s properties.
Warne looked—in the words of the Daily Mail—“like a spooky waxwork.”
Spooky Tooth had reformed quite a while before I received the call and were touring quite often.
When we all saw this, both my brothers turned to look at me in the car and pulled ‘spooky’ faces at me.
“As much as I love sunny meadows and bunnies, I also love spooky forests with owls,” she says.
Formerly a playground for Sunday school kids, it has a spooky, cloistered feel to it.
I don't believe there is anything spooky about that building.
"I hate to go through the grove, it's so spooky," she said, as they hurried along.
And again the ghostly hoot of the owl made the little patch of woods seem more spooky and lonesome.
A lonely owl answered with a dismal shriek from a distant tree, making the night seem still more spooky.
Those were gnomes—the real spooky, spinky kind that give you the shivers up and down your back when they're out gnoming.
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