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Definition of eldritch in English: eldritchadjective ˈɛl(d)rɪtʃˈɛldrɪtʃ Weird and sinister or ghostly. 怪异的;可怕的;鬼似的 一声怪异的尖叫声。 Example sentencesExamples - And then she joined hands with the other witch, and eldritch force sizzled through them like a river of blue lightning, and my plans changed on the spot.
- And then, for the first time since she had first appeared in Belloc's garden, she began to sing, in a quiet, penetrating, wordless, altogether eldritch voice.
- They were part of a promotional kit for the film and irresistible to a collector of the eldritch and the outré.
- That is still the case, although there is one demure young lass whose eldritch scream would be enough to frighten even the toughest banshee.
- I need something particularly eldritch, hideous and nameless here.
- There was a piercing, petrifying, eldritch screech.
- The name suggests something eldritch is in the offing.
- The whites beneath her lowered eyes showed as she said this, and for an instant Anest felt as though he spoke, not to his wife, but to a perfect stranger, the purely eldritch creature she had once been.
- It pulsed under a huge summer moon that cast eldritch light more revealing than sunbeams, though still far kinder.
- This random disconnection wouldn't have been too much of a problem had not the ISP used a strange and eldritch log on procedure involving the entry of username and password twice.
Synonyms ghostlike, spectral, phantom, wraithlike, phantasmal, phantasmic, unearthly, unnatural, supernatural, other-worldly, insubstantial, illusory, unreal, shadowy, eerie, weird, uncanny, mysterious, magical, mystic, strange, abnormal, freakish
OriginEarly 16th century (originally Scots): perhaps related to elf. Definition of eldritch in US English: eldritchadjectiveˈeldriCHˈɛldrɪtʃ Weird and sinister or ghostly. 怪异的;可怕的;鬼似的 一声怪异的尖叫声。 Example sentencesExamples - This random disconnection wouldn't have been too much of a problem had not the ISP used a strange and eldritch log on procedure involving the entry of username and password twice.
- The whites beneath her lowered eyes showed as she said this, and for an instant Anest felt as though he spoke, not to his wife, but to a perfect stranger, the purely eldritch creature she had once been.
- That is still the case, although there is one demure young lass whose eldritch scream would be enough to frighten even the toughest banshee.
- They were part of a promotional kit for the film and irresistible to a collector of the eldritch and the outré.
- I need something particularly eldritch, hideous and nameless here.
- And then, for the first time since she had first appeared in Belloc's garden, she began to sing, in a quiet, penetrating, wordless, altogether eldritch voice.
- There was a piercing, petrifying, eldritch screech.
- It pulsed under a huge summer moon that cast eldritch light more revealing than sunbeams, though still far kinder.
- The name suggests something eldritch is in the offing.
- And then she joined hands with the other witch, and eldritch force sizzled through them like a river of blue lightning, and my plans changed on the spot.
Synonyms ghostlike, spectral, phantom, wraithlike, phantasmal, phantasmic, unearthly, unnatural, supernatural, other-worldly, insubstantial, illusory, unreal, shadowy, eerie, weird, uncanny, mysterious, magical, mystic, strange, abnormal, freakish
OriginEarly 16th century (originally Scots): perhaps related to elf. |