She bears an uncanny resemblance to Marilyn Monroe.
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Uncanny
//ʌnˈkæni//
Synonyms for "uncanny" (67 found)
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Related words (33)
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1 entriesderived
3 entriesderived from
1 entrieshas context
5 entriesrelated to
9 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
82 translations across 30 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀλλόκοτος adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
Bulgarian
2 entries- необичаен adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
- странен adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
Catalan
3 entries- estrany adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
- inquietant adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
- misteriós adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 诡异 adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
Czech
4 entries- podivný adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
- tajemný adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
- tajuplný adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
- zlověstný adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
Danish
1 entries- uhyggelig adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
Dutch
2 entries- griezelig adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
- mysterieus adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
Esperanto
1 entries- preternatura adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
Finnish
2 entries- hämmästyttävä adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
- outo adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
French
4 entries- déroutant adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
- déroutante adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
- troublant adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
- étrange adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
Galician
4 entries- desconcertante adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
- inquietante adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
- perturbador adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
- perturbadora adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
German
4 entries- frappierend adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
- gruselig adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
- seltsam adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
- unheimlich adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
Greek
2 entries- αλλόκοτος adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
- ανοίκειο noun (something that is simultaneously familiar and strange)
Hungarian
4 entries- hátborzongató adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
- kísérteties adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
- különös adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
- nyugtalanító adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
Icelandic
4 entries- dularfullur adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
- kynlegur adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
- skuggalegur adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
- undarlegur adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
Indonesian
1 entries- gerun adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
Italian
4 entries- angosciante adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
- bizzarro adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
- curioso adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
- inquietante adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
Japanese
1 entries- 不気味な adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
Māori
2 entries- autaia adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
- tupua adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- uhyggelig adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
Occitan
1 entries- estranh adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
Polish
3 entries- niesamowity adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
- niezwykły adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
- przedziwny adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
Portuguese
2 entries- estranho adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
- perturbador adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
Romanian
1 entries- bizar adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
Russian
2 entries- жу́ткий adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
- сверхъесте́ственный adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
Spanish
4 entries- desconcertante adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
- escalofriante adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
- espeluznante adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
- extraño adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
Swedish
1 entries- underlig adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
Turkish
1 entries- tekinsiz noun (something that is simultaneously familiar and strange)
Ukrainian
1 entries- моторошний adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
Yiddish
4 entries- אומהיימלעך adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
- געהײַריש adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
- טשודנע adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
- נישט־היימלעך adj (strange, mysteriously unsettling)
Sample sentences
21 total sentences available.
Her awkwardness was uncanny.
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This incident is quite uncanny.
Source: tatoeba (698968)
The robot was so lifelike that it was uncanny.
Source: tatoeba (908180)
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