Vocabulary
Uncanny
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
strange or mysterious, especially in an unsettling way.
Urdu meaning
پراسرار، غیر طبعی
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- People at the institute showed an uncanny prescience vis-à-vis the travails of Afghan women in the decades to come.
- It is uncanny, this magical ethereal feeling that surrounds the visitor the palace rooms are not very large or terribly luxurious and quite unlike the Baroque palaces of Europe that would be built later.
- It is uncanny, this magical ethereal feeling that surrounds the visitor the palace rooms are not very large or terribly luxurious and quite unlike the Baroque palaces of Europe that would be built later.
- His was an uncanny lucidity about matters of the state the right to change dispensations and their policies rests with the electorate.
- His was an uncanny lucidity about matters of the state the right to change dispensations and their policies rests with the electorate.
Synonyms
eerie, unnatural, preternatural, supernatural, unearthly, other-worldly, unreal,
Antonyms
ordinary, normal, unremarkable, run-of-the-mill
Curator example
“an uncanny feeling that she was being watched”
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