Meaning of spookish | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Frightening or unnerving in the manner of something eerie or supernatural; spooky.
   informal
2. Easily startled, frightened, or unnerved.
   informal, often

Examples

“I hope⟳ we find⟳ some nicer spot than this. This looks so lonely and spookish.”

“Religion is everywhere a gauge of respectability. . . . The right to participate⟳, however humbly, in His august and transcendental operations offers a powerful satisfaction to the will to power; the same privilege, on a smaller scale, is what takes hordes of human blanks into the Freemasons and other such spookish amalgamations of nonentities.”

“In those moments thus spent in composing myself for sleep⟳, I sometimes wondered in the last⟳ human occupant of the room were not a dead one. I was senselessly spookish about such things.”

“As a lesson horse she needs to gain⟳ confidence in her rider, or can become⟳ spookish over the jumps, dodging out of them.”

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