Uncanny has 4 different meanings across 1 category:
Adjective
Noun
1
Something that is simultaneously familiar and strange, typically leading to feelings of discomfort; translation of Freud's usage of the German "unheimlich" (literally "unsecret").
Adjective
1
suggesting the operation of supernatural influences
"an eldritch screech"
"the three weird sisters"
"stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures"
"an unearthly light"
"he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"
2
surpassing the ordinary or normal
"Beyond his preternatural affability there is some acid and some steel"
"his uncanny sense of direction"
3
Strange, and mysteriously unsettling (as if supernatural); weird.
Example Sentences
"an eldritch screech"
adjective
"the three weird sisters"
adjective
"stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures"
adjective
"an unearthly light"
adjective
"he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"
adjective
"Beyond his preternatural affability there is some acid and some steel"
adjective
"his uncanny sense of direction"
adjective