Spooky
adjective
Frightening in a supernatural way.
The old, abandoned house looks really spooky in the night.
Often appears as...
- spooky house
- spooky night
adjective
Even a little bit weird or strange.
His behaviour was a bit spooky since he came back from the trip.
Often appears as...
- spooky behaviour
- spooky feeling
Usage tips
Colloquial
adjective
Uncanny, as if influenced by supernatural forces.
There was a spooky coincidence today.
Often appears as...
- spooky coincidence
- spooky event
adjective
Frightening in a supernatural way.
The old, abandoned house looks really spooky in the night.
Often appears as...
- spooky house
- spooky night
adjective
Even a little bit weird or strange.
His behaviour was a bit spooky since he came back from the trip.
Often appears as...
- spooky behaviour
- spooky feeling
Usage tips
Colloquial
adjective
Uncanny, as if influenced by supernatural forces.
There was a spooky coincidence today.
Often appears as...
- spooky coincidence
- spooky event
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Supernatural Context
Use 'spooky' to describe places or situations that remind you of ghosts or horror stories.
The way the shadows danced on the walls was really spooky.
Pro Tip 2/3Visual Imagery
'Spooky' often evokes images of darkness, fog, and deserted places.
The foggy graveyard at midnight felt incredibly spooky.
Pro Tip 3/3Halloween Association
The word 'spooky' is commonly associated with Halloween and things related to it.
They put up spooky decorations for Halloween.
Pro Tip 1/3Supernatural Context
Use 'spooky' to describe places or situations that remind you of ghosts or horror stories.
The way the shadows danced on the walls was really spooky.
Pro Tip 2/3Visual Imagery
'Spooky' often evokes images of darkness, fog, and deserted places.
The foggy graveyard at midnight felt incredibly spooky.
Pro Tip 3/3Halloween Association
The word 'spooky' is commonly associated with Halloween and things related to it.
They put up spooky decorations for Halloween.
Pro Tip 1/3Supernatural Context
Use 'spooky' to describe places or situations that remind you of ghosts or horror stories.
The way the shadows danced on the walls was really spooky.
Pro Tip 2/3Visual Imagery
'Spooky' often evokes images of darkness, fog, and deserted places.
The foggy graveyard at midnight felt incredibly spooky.
Pro Tip 3/3Halloween Association
The word 'spooky' is commonly associated with Halloween and things related to it.
They put up spooky decorations for Halloween.
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Video examples
David Hanson: Robots...
that they're human, and they sort of come to life. So we put his writings, letters, his interviews, correspondences, into a huge database of thousands of pages, and then used some natural language processing to allow you to actually have a conversation with him. And it was kind of spooky, because he would say these things
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Brian Skerry: Ocean Soul...
diving I could see the mountain this is perhaps my or was perhaps my favorite place while working on this story because it truly was like swimming through the pages of a storybook every dive was interesting with a fascinating cast of characters this was a place that was a spooky sort of whip coral forest
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Demystifying quantum...
spooky action at a distance all of that starts from the fact that everything is both a particle and a wave but when we look at the world around us we see waves in water we see particles of rock they're nothing alike so what bizarre thought process would make physicists think that these are the
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John Bohannon: Dance vs....
It enters a new state of matter called a superfluid. The atoms lose their individual identity, and the rules from the quantum world take over, and that's what gives superfluids such spooky properties. For example, if you shine light through a superfluid, it is able to slow photons down
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The Secret Culture of...
in massachusetts far away from the coast if he wanted to go diving he had to get creative so there were these stone quarries in his town that were flooded with water and that's where brian would dive they were sort of dark and spooky and deep
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Will we ever be able to...
Einstein and his colleagues called this strange communcation spooky action at a distance. While it does seem that entanglement between two particles helps transfer a qubit instantaneously across the space between them, there's a catch.
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Dance vs. PowerPoint, a...
a new state of matter called a superfluid the atoms lose their individual identity and the rules from the quantum world take over and that's what gives superfluid such spooky properties for example if you shine light through
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Einstein's brilliant...
or spooky action at a distance. He decided that quantum mechanics must be incomplete, a mere approximation of a deeper reality in which both particles have predetermined states that are hidden from us.
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Solar System Exploration:...
by reasoning we are one way at least that the universe knows itself and right here I think we cue the spooky music no it is stunning and so as the more we learn about astronomy the more we learn
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Food in the Freezer PIPE...
there's something spooky about the outside world in winter the trees have sucked back the goodness from their
Video examples
David Hanson: Robots...
that they're human, and they sort of come to life. So we put his writings, letters, his interviews, correspondences, into a huge database of thousands of pages, and then used some natural language processing to allow you to actually have a conversation with him. And it was kind of spooky, because he would say these things
Video examples
Brian Skerry: Ocean Soul...
diving I could see the mountain this is perhaps my or was perhaps my favorite place while working on this story because it truly was like swimming through the pages of a storybook every dive was interesting with a fascinating cast of characters this was a place that was a spooky sort of whip coral forest
Video examples
Demystifying quantum...
spooky action at a distance all of that starts from the fact that everything is both a particle and a wave but when we look at the world around us we see waves in water we see particles of rock they're nothing alike so what bizarre thought process would make physicists think that these are the
Video examples
John Bohannon: Dance vs....
It enters a new state of matter called a superfluid. The atoms lose their individual identity, and the rules from the quantum world take over, and that's what gives superfluids such spooky properties. For example, if you shine light through a superfluid, it is able to slow photons down
Video examples
The Secret Culture of...
in massachusetts far away from the coast if he wanted to go diving he had to get creative so there were these stone quarries in his town that were flooded with water and that's where brian would dive they were sort of dark and spooky and deep
Video examples
Will we ever be able to...
Einstein and his colleagues called this strange communcation spooky action at a distance. While it does seem that entanglement between two particles helps transfer a qubit instantaneously across the space between them, there's a catch.
Video examples
Dance vs. PowerPoint, a...
a new state of matter called a superfluid the atoms lose their individual identity and the rules from the quantum world take over and that's what gives superfluid such spooky properties for example if you shine light through
Video examples
Einstein's brilliant...
or spooky action at a distance. He decided that quantum mechanics must be incomplete, a mere approximation of a deeper reality in which both particles have predetermined states that are hidden from us.
Video examples
Solar System Exploration:...
by reasoning we are one way at least that the universe knows itself and right here I think we cue the spooky music no it is stunning and so as the more we learn about astronomy the more we learn
Video examples
Food in the Freezer PIPE...
there's something spooky about the outside world in winter the trees have sucked back the goodness from their
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Richard Smalley
American Scientist
I know that, except for carbon, there would be no life in the universe. Except for this one atom, there would be no life. Well, why? When you think about it, it does get spooky. Encountering these molecules are spiritual experiences similar to what I remember in church as a child, only these are more serious.
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Tom Clancy
American Novelist
I think about the characters I've created and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did. It's spooky.
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James St. James
American Celebrity
There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free fall forever inside their head. It's a spooky thing to be left alone inside an angry inner-verse.
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William Gibson
American Writer
I'm always interested in the spooky repurposing of everyday things.
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Pete Hamill
American Journalist
The spookiest thing I can remember about John Gotti is his eyes.
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Sameera Reddy
I sleepwalk and scare people. It's actually very spooky.
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Laurie Anderson
American Musician
I'm not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky.
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Matt Skiba
American Musician
I loved anything spooky, mysterious, or frightening.
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Elizabeth Marvel
American Actress
I was a spooky kid; that was just my nature.
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Weyes Blood
American Musician
I find Nevada to be extremely spooky.
Quote examples
Richard Smalley
American Scientist
I know that, except for carbon, there would be no life in the universe. Except for this one atom, there would be no life. Well, why? When you think about it, it does get spooky. Encountering these molecules are spiritual experiences similar to what I remember in church as a child, only these are more serious.
Quote examples
Tom Clancy
American Novelist
I think about the characters I've created and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did. It's spooky.
Quote examples
James St. James
American Celebrity
There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free fall forever inside their head. It's a spooky thing to be left alone inside an angry inner-verse.
Quote examples
William Gibson
American Writer
I'm always interested in the spooky repurposing of everyday things.
Quote examples
Pete Hamill
American Journalist
The spookiest thing I can remember about John Gotti is his eyes.
Quote examples
Sameera Reddy
I sleepwalk and scare people. It's actually very spooky.
Quote examples
Laurie Anderson
American Musician
I'm not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky.
Quote examples
Matt Skiba
American Musician
I loved anything spooky, mysterious, or frightening.
Quote examples
Elizabeth Marvel
American Actress
I was a spooky kid; that was just my nature.
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Weyes Blood
American Musician
I find Nevada to be extremely spooky.
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