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Adjective: spooky (spookier,spookiest)  spoo-kee
Usage: informal
  1. Inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening
    "an uncomfortable and spooky stillness in the woods";
    - eerie, eery
     
  2. Suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious
    "a spooky feeling of déjà vu";
    - eerie
     
  3. [N. Amer, informal] Unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)
    - skittish, flighty, nervous, skittery

Derived forms: spookier, spookiest

See also: excitable, oddball, strange, supernatural, unusual

Encyclopedia: Spooky, Spooky