Adjective: spooky (spookier,spookiest) spoo-kee
Usage: informal
Usage: informal
- Inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening
"an uncomfortable and spooky stillness in the woods";
- eerie, eery
- Suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious
"a spooky feeling of déjà vu";
- eerie
- [N. Amer, informal] Unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)
"The spooky colt was difficult to train";
- skittish, flighty, nervous, skittery
Derived forms: spookier, spookiest
See also: excitable, oddball, strange, supernatural, unusual
Encyclopedia: Spooky, Spooky