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uncanny

un·can·ny

uncanny

 
pronunciation:
uhn kae ni
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Word Combinations (adjective)
part of speech: adjective
definition: appearing to be beyond ordinary human or natural means or capacity.
He has an uncanny ability to anticipate my words.
synonyms:
preternatural, weird
similar words:
bizarre, extraordinary, fantastic, odd, remarkable, strange, supernormal, unearthly, unnatural, wonderful
Word Combinations  About this feature
adverb + (adj.)uncanny almost, seemingly
(adj.)uncanny + adverb precisely
(adj.)uncanny + noun ability, accuracy, agility, appearance, awareness, clarity, coincidence, confidence, correlation, depth, double, echo, feeling, flavor, foreshadowing, ghost, gift, grace, grasp, humor, imitation, impression, insight, instinct, intuition, judgment, knack, likeness, luck, parallel, pass, perception, phenomenon, precision, prediction, prescience, radar, realm, repetition, resemblance, resistance, sensation, sense, similarity, skill, speed, strength, synchronicity, talent, timing, vision [See all][See only the most frequent]
derivations: uncannily (adv.), uncanniness (n.)